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I've seen the Waller, and it looks like a lovely cruiser - especially for her home waters, where drying out is a huge advantage. Looks to be great value too, and if I were in the market for a cruiser I'd have looked at it already!

Yes, the east was the one that flipped - it was beautifully built, but I don't know what effect the capsize had. I know the story, but still find it hard to imagine that it was "only" 70 knots that flipped a cruising cat at mooring - maybe localised strength was greater?

Donk107 said..

we had just come home from Church and the forecast was for 30 knots but as the boats left the start and sailed across in front of our place i said to my wife that there was bugger all breeze compared to what was forecast and i thought the forecast was wrong but 5 minutes later it hit

The blokes in the race afterwards said it sounded like a train coming and happened that quick they didn't have time to reef or drop sails

One of the 40 footers had both her sails shredded and the boat i normally crew on was laid over flat in the water and just sat there like that until it was over

Regards Don

When they said "pray for wind", they didn't realise you had such good connections.

Hi 2bish

I asked the question on the multihull section on Cruisers Forum www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f48/thoughts-on-this-cat-202751.html and the feedback has generally been positive from those who own the same or similar boats

I have a rdo on Friday so i might give Kim a call and see if i can have a look over her and see what she looks like in the flesh

Regards Don

Hi all

I went and had a look at the Easy today and she looks pretty much the same as shown in the advert

I cant really see to much wrong with her

I also called a surveyor down here and asked the question about what the procedure would be to put her in commercial survey with the aim of having her make some money and he said the first thing he would need to do is look at the build plans to see if it was feasible so i asked the broker to see if the original build plans might still be in existence

I then called the designer Peter Snell (a nice guy who was easy to talk to) and he said that there were a couple he knew of in survey but was not sure what modifications had to be carried out in order to meet the regulations

Peter was a bit perplexed as to why the bows were changed from raked to plumb (extended not cut off) when the rebuild happened as he believed it would not be an improvement on his original design

As far as the flipping over incident early in her life the broker (who watched it happen) told me she dragged her mooring in the storm into deeper water and when the mooring chain ran out of length the weight of the block dragged the bows under and she got a gust under her stern and flipped her over

We will see where we end up with this one

Regards Don