catamarans as towboats

Although this video has been on my channel for some time it was originally uploaded as two "shorts" and so some viewers may have missed them. Thus I have combined them into one, both showing catamarans sailing at speed whilst towing a "vessel". Just, in the case of the first video! The second part shows one of my 8ft Crayfish designs being towed at speed behind a 25ft Sango catamaran. This boat was home built in Portland, USA and is seen here being sailed in Mexico - a long way to trail the boat! You can see more on the Sango here https://www.sailingcatamarans.com/index.php/designs-2/2-catamarans-under-25ft/160-sango and Crayfish here https://www.sailingcatamarans.com/index.php/designs-2/46-beach-cats-and-dinghies/1-crayfish-8 And following is the text for the first video: We had an interesting final sail on Peter's Firebird in the most wind I sailed in when in Barbados - we sailed with 2 reefs. Peter's friend Eric has a foiling wakeboard and he wanted to foil behind the Firebird. In the end he managed it, but there was lots of falling in at the beginning. It was hard work for Peter and I as we had to start at near zero speed, so Eric could grab the tow rope, then slowly accelerate to about 7 knots so he could get ready for lift off. Then accelerate to 10 knots very quickly, so he could lift out. And then control the speed at 10-12 rather than surge up to 15-18. But of course the wind would drop, or he'd fall in or.... but, as I say, after 2 hours he did manage to fly for maybe 30 secs. Although, if we were quick enough, we could stop and heave to after he fell in, sometimes we sailed on too far and then we had to pull in the tow rope (we discovered it was too easy to get it entangled on rudders and daggerboards), tack round and sail back. As always it was scary how quickly a head disappears from view. But interestingly we could easily see him when he was in the sun, it was when he was north of us that he became invisible (one of his sons kept a very close eye on Dad, religiously pointing to his position). Flat water helped, and lots of passing day charter cats got a bit confused by seeing a swimmer apparently a mile out to sea but happily waving!