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.

Cat vs monohull sailboat. Self-righting if they capsize they will right themselves as long as they dont fill up with water. 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. A catamaran is much better than a monohull in many ways.

Bought a nice Beneteau 361 last Spring as my first large sailboat. Power Cat Pro. Cats galore off the Soggy Dollar Bar Jost van Dyke.

Downwind cats feel like a house gliding on the ocean at speed while monos roll from side to side. Monohulls heel upwind and when the wind is on the beam while catamarans stay flat but pitch upwind. A catamaran is faster than the average monohull boat.

Answer 1 of 9. Had a ball with it this summer sailing every weekend in the Chesapeake til July then in Delaware BayAltantic Ocean til now. Modern catamarans can do a 360 turn in their length.

How enjoyable it is to sail a monohull rather than a catamaran is personal. So if you are in for hard pure sailing you will not get that felling on a cat. They also offer safer anchorage and are easy to control.

Having done a basic cat vs mono comparison our thinking so far is that whilst a monohull under full sail is undoubtedly more of a rush we think it might be a bit too much to handle as we get older what with the heeling over at 45 degrees whilst our 70 year old knees and ankles squeak in protest and obviously it cant get so close into shore. That buys a lot of years cruising. As a result the cat can spin and turn on a dime with little effort while the monohull has much less leverage when the engines are opposed.