John,

Thanks for the great reply. It's so helpful to get that kind of insight into the design process, so clearly stated, particularly from the designer himself.

From your experience it sounds like there could be no advantage to canting on hulls with more freeboard since the rear beams may clear just as easily without it?

Interestingly, I could see how your experience may NOT apply to other hull shapes than yours (which is why I originally included hull shape in the question). I notice (if I am seeing straight!) that your hulls have more roundness to them, particularly on the sides, than many other designs. Since the transition between the bottom and sides is so gradual I would think your hull's characteristics (when both hulls are in the water) would be simialr whether canted or not, hence no downsides regarding drag, tacking, etc. One could imagine if a hull had a sharper transition between bottom and sides that there potentiall might be some different behavior or even downside to canting in some conditions (a more suble example perhaps of deeper v hulls such as H14/16).

On a related note, even without canting I would think that a sharper trasition between bottom and sides could potentially introduce some subtle unpredicatble behavior when flying a hull as the heel angle varied. Anyone actually observe this?

Jerry