Whats the difference between a cat and a trimaran?
Cam Lewis: Well, a cat is two hulls and a tri is three hulls. Usually most racing trimarans are a little bit wider than the catamarans.They have a little bit more riding momentum. Q: Is it easier to outrun a storm or to just shut everything down and anchor the boat? Cam Lewis: Typically in a perfect world, especially today on the bigger racing sailboats -mono- hulls, cats or tris – where you can track the weather with live satellite pictures which you can download straight to your laptop on a boat in almost any ocean of the world is that with good information, you can outrun most of the storms. Q: You really can? Cam Lewis: Yeah. We’re capable of doing on a new boat 20-plus knots, and if we know where the storms are, we can typically avoid them. The way that most racing type sailboats operate with information -having outside weather assistance- is not thought of cheating anymore. Q: Talk about the Jules Verne race. How many crew members were on the boat? Cam Lewis:There was five of us.
