![]() Sadly for them, however, the light ship weight advertised by builders is the approximate weight of the boat before they add on a single option, the tender, the spares, etc. Spread sheet guys know that they need accurate information to punch into their computers. Here are 14 things spreadsheet guys too often forget when crunching their numbers: A Spreadsheet is only as accurate as the information you feed it. There are, however, several limitations to the spreadsheet approach because the spreadsheet has a difficult time capturing the larger picture of what ultimately ads up to a great catamaran, or the many trade-offs a designer must make when designing a yacht. Spread-sheet guys wisely focus on both the visible and the invisible when buying a boat because they recognize the purchase of a large catamaran is not, as one of my customers smartly says, “like buying a stick of bubble gum.” It is a big purchasing decision and all due diligence is in order. Are you the sort of guy who asks builders for performance Polars? Who measures a catamarans power to weight ratio? Do you spend hours poring over catamaran owner web blogs and or forums? Do you research carefully the difference between various foam cores, glass materials, resins? Are you attracted to electric engines and lithium Ion batteries? Intrigued by rotating wing masts, foils, or curved dagger-boards? If you answer yes to most of the above you are what we yacht brokers jokingly call a “spreadsheet guy.”Īs a life-time sailor and racer I honestly much prefer working with spread-sheeters over impulse buyers. ![]()
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