Design Catamarans Ltd can offer a full set of drawings comprising General Arrangement drawings.

Catamaran design rules. Outboards vs diesels fitted in small catamarans. It is difficult to get much over 067 without a very distorted hull shape or one with excessive WSA. Class Rules - Formula 18 Catamaran.

Experienced designers generally use engineering rules of thumb to guide their design. 1394 m 2 1500 ft 2 still the old IYRU rule. This is not a rule allowing continual intermittent foiling.

Link to the current rules for Formula 18 Catamaran boats. The commonly accepted way is to design longitudinal and transversal metacenter heights equal. However the key to Catamaran design is you need a higher Cp if you want to sail fast.

Please share the any rules of thumb that you have come across. Indeed its only a few years ago that we were approached to create a Multi50 trimaran design and it was very disappointing when at the end of the preliminary design phase the sponsorship was terminated ending the project. Designs from 14 - 63 are available for self-building in plyepoxy with very detailed easy to follow Plans often described as a course in boatbuilding.

75 kg 1653 lbs. Here are three to get this thread started. If the boat is less than 15m in length it should be fitted with the largest radar reflector possible.

Kids look kinda bored. For steel and aluminium builds to suit each clients individual requirements. Min overall boat weight.