More stability bodes well for the cats ability to adapt - and ours.

Unsinkable monohull. However the fact remains that one will be much better off on an inverted cat presenting a great target to search teams than bobbing in a tiny rubber raft while ones monohull. On the contrary a catamaran has loads of safety features chief among them is its unsinkability so it easily comes out on top as far as safety is concerned. In fact if there is a hull breach on a monohull boat your boat could sink.

Number of hulls. With a 200 pound occupant it draws only 3 inches of water. Even if one flips over due to the nature of having two hulls it.

You can leave bedding on an Etap all winter and it will be condensation-free when you return in spring. As you can see this is a one passenger 2 module hull with exceptional buoyancy. Of course the extra design materials and labour that go into building an Etap make.

It can be paddled rowed or motorized. Patent applied for and seamlessly fuses a twin stepped asymmetrical catamaran hull form with a wave piercing monohull to create a hybrid design that delivers the rough weather and high speed dynamic transverse stability of a catamaran with the steep head sea capabilities of a deep V monohull. Its warmer below in winter and cooler below in summer.

They dont have keels and often have foam hulls. However the flip side to this argument is the nearly unsinkable nature of the catamaran. The term unsinkable might mean completely flooded and in the very worst circumstance result in a capsize.

Great plus to be able to set down a beer and actually pick it up where you left it. We could have crammed the four of us onto a monohull. However this way we can each have our own space.