John, you said it's a 35-foot catamaran that someone LIVES on. Not a
six footer for a sailing enthusiast who goes to a house when he's done
playing. And you said nothing about sails, jibs, masts, booms, etc.

Your comments (except for one) are not pertinent to the images I cited
either. (no sails, single motor in the back).

The one is about spray. If you are sailing where there's spray, then of
course you have to deal with that. Lots of ways to do so.


On 11-21-2013, 00:45, John B. wrote:
On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 23:51:48 -0500, Wes Groleau
wrote:

I should have said:
.... If the boat is 35 feet long (twelve meters),
it surely has room for a bicycle.

A SIX-meter Bantam has on each side, a space 2.5 meters long, 2.5
meters high, and about 300 centimeters wide. And LOTS of space on top.
See drawings at the bottom of http://tinyurl.com/kulbl6n

But stacking things on top gets in the way of the mast and sails :-)

This bike is less than a meter high, less than two meters long:
http://tinyurl.com/ku6t6av

If you had things sticking out either side of the top of the Bantam, you
could hang four bikes, though it might be hard to lift them that high.
But the solution to that is something like
http://tinyurl.com/n77neag

Things sticking out the sides get all wet with sea water when the wind
blows.... maybe causing the handle bars to wilt :-)

The handlebars would actually stick out over the side of the boat a tiny
bit. But they'd be almost over the head of the world's tallest man.
You would need something to pull the bottoms of the wheels up tight
against the side of the boat to prevent banging. That would leave
almost all of the walkway clear.

Not too cool as it will interfere with the jib when you go to
windward. :-)

I've seen bike mounts for the TOPS of cars that could just as easily go
on the top of a boat.

"Things on top" usually get knocked off when the boom swings over onto
the new tack. :-)



--
Wes Groleau

A pessimist says the glass is half empty.
An optimist says the glass is half full.
An engineer says somebody made the glass
twice as big as it needed to be.