The great buoyancy enables the entire boat to act as sort of a raft.

Cat hull vs monohull. His catamaran was 35-weve been on a bunch of those and the difference between a 35 Wildcat catamaran from the early 00s and a 2009 Lagoon 380 ours is enormous. Comfort Underway Speaking of comfort underway a catamaran vs a monohull will sail differently. If everything including length remains the same a catamaran is about 30 faster than a monohull.

As a catamaran owner Im biased but the Bumfuzzle articles about cat vs monohull didnt compare apples to apples in my opinion. A monohull by comparison needs much more power to increase its speed. Most often a little more length is the magic.

Sailing flat has definite advantages. If you are into SCUBA diving carrying tanks and all the assorted equipment is. So when we saw that our friends Nick and Terysa were considering the switch from Monohull to Catamaran we invited them to.

I wouldnt have been able to do that on the cat but I would have been able to drop the kids in the massive cockpit with a. Cats galore off the Soggy Dollar Bar Jost van Dyke. Enough in fact that we can drive our kids big red Cozy Coupe car around in circles.

Catamarans are usually faster than monohulls particularly on downwind runs reaches and broad reaches. Our monohull is a canoe stern rear cockpit which means basically that the cockpit is ridiculously small. If you want to use a diesel motor there is more space available for an engine in a monohull than in the cats slender shallow hulls making it more accessible and easier to work on.

If the boat is too short you need to slow way down and lose some of the nice ride. Downwind cats feel like a house gliding on the ocean at speed while monos roll from side to side. Of course catamarans arent always faster.