Not so sure if i am yet convinced about the answers although I have no alternative to offer. 

The HP will have the platform stability of a 'catamaran' but I'm a certain sense is narrower than a mono if you are trying to wrestle something inboard like a sail which has lost its main sheet and is feathering to leeward. Only sailing the HP Atlantic style would allow the sail to come over the deck automatically and offer the benefit of the deck space.

Team Philips had quite large manholes/pods around the mast to let people work secure for what I presume exactly the same reason - working very close to the ocean on the lw side of the boat with a fair chance of green water. Potentially placing the mast of center/on the ww side of the lw hull may add a bit of space.

But only the people like Rob etc who have experienced it on HP could give an experience based answer - and I guess there seems to be little worry. But then again I hear Rob eats Kevlar for breakfast so may not be the average sailor :-)

Fedor

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