This is one of the great sailing questions.

Is a catamaran better than a yacht. Sailing yacht or power yacht summary. No honest sailor can answer the catamarans versus monohulls question categorically. The choice is personal and depends on what people want in a boat and a cruising life.

Bebe Catamaran is 32 feet with a 16 foot beam and is perfect for small groups of up to 22 people. Here we lay out pros and cons for each type. This means catamarans can get into places monohulls yachts often cannot reach and that they can also anchor closer to shore.

The catamaran possesses one more indisputable advantage - this is navigation. Going below decks in a yacht and losing sight of the horizon can often be enough to send you over the edge. Its also a lot easier in many cases to board a cat on the sugar scoops than.

Some docks simply cannot accommodate us. Catamarans are a bit safer than trimarans. This is because they face less water resistance and their narrow hulls dont have to deal with their own bow waves as a monohull does.

Its just that tris are typically designed with more emphasis on performance. A catamaran is faster than the average monohull boat. There is no question that catamarans are faster under power or sail.

As with many things in life I would not call one better than the other. We only draw 38 with our dagger boards up which is not much more than the trawler. The living space is less in a trimaran compared with a catamaran and the deck area is less for a trimaran.