World News SBS 11 July 2019 A British catamaran capsized on the River Hudson earlier today ahead a dramatic race in front of thousands of fans at the New York SailGP.

Catamaran tree meaning. Catamarans come in all shapes and sizes from the tiniest beach cats you can lift with a friend or giant 70ft luxury ships worth millions of dollars. The first design was simply a raft made of tree trunks built in the fishing communities of Tamil Nadu in southern India and used to invade several Southeast Asian countries as early as the 5th century. A kind of raft or float consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together and moved by paddles or sail.

Catamaran in British English. A catamaran is a type of sailboat with two hulls that are parallel to each other and are joined by the deck. A raft of three pieces of wood lashed together the middle piece being longer than the others and serving as a keelon this the rower squats and works a paddlemuch used in the Madras surf.

An old kind of fire-ship long superseded. A raft consisting of two or more logs tied together. The raft type has been widespread on the Indian coromandel coast for centuries and is mainly used for fishing until the very recent.

The man was blowed to pieces I tell you by a thing called a catamaran off the. -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. A sailing or sometimes motored vessel with twin hulls held parallel by a rigid framework.

It has two hulls that are side by side linked by a single deck. In general one can differentiate between motor catamarans motor ship and. The name Madras catamaran has its roots in the original Tamil meaning of the word catamaran which describes a boat made of tree trunks tied together.

Catamaran definition is - a vessel such as a sailboat with twin hulls and usually a deck or superstructure connecting the hulls. Three people have died and two are in hospital after a catamaran overturned off the Newcastle coast with the rescue operation hampered by rough conditions. A raft used on the St Lawrence River by lashing two ships together.