Thousands of hours are spent reviewing every small detail to ensure that the resulting design will withstand the scrutiny of the educated sailor while keeping the crew safe and secure.

Catamaran design considerations. Lightweight 14ft Zeta mainhull. I call this new vessel design a MainHull-Mono-maran MHM-maran. Sound design principles are timeless.

And SWATH ships have the disadvantage that they are very expensive have a complex control system a deep draught high maintenance a high power requirement will require 80 more power than a equivalent catamaran. Building your own catamaran is another option to getting into your own boat. Strike 15 trimaran at speed.

Both the catamaran and the trimaran have one mast that is located around the centerpoint. The buoyancy of the boat is also concentrated at the extremity of the hull centerline beam giving massive roll damping. Also in cruising catamarans the hulls are tied together with an accommodation deck suspended above the waves.

By thoroughly evaluating each type of vessel the AHP helped me to a design comprising the best features of both the sloop and the catamaran. On catamarans with one helm all lines should run back to the helm so there is a static position from where the entire boat can be controlled. Ease of Handling.

This fact signifies the diagonal axis the distance from the port stern to starboard bow of a catamaran as an important design criterion. It is the space between the hulls. The monohull was found to have a much higher rate of cancellation due to weather and port size.

Richard Woods catamaran designer and sailor talks to us about bow shapes on cruising catamarans and why bow shape should be an important consideration to buyers of catamarans. 10ft 2 sheet ply Duo dinghy. When I studied yacht design during 1975-8 my final year design project was a 35 cruising catamaran with a short gaff rig as this seemed to be an easy way of approximating to the semi elliptic shape.