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A catamaran ferry in Salem, Massachusetts A French catamaran trawler. The increasing popularity of catamaran since the 1960s is down to the added space, speed, shallow draft, and lack of heeling underway. The stability of a multihull makes sailing much less tiring for the crew, and is particularly suitable for families.
catamaran = two symmetric hulls; proa = two asymmetric hulls, reverse-shunting (interchangeable bow/stern) trimaran = three hulls; quadrimaran = four hulls;
Hobie Alter sold the Hobie Cat Company to the Coleman Company in 1975. In 1982, Coast Catamaran (The official name of the Hobie Cat Company at that time) bought dinghy company Vagabond and its line of dinghy designs from Ron Holder and produced a series of dinghies (Hobie Hawk, Hobie Holder 12, Hobie Holder 14, Hobie Holder 17 & Hobie Holder 20) and monohulls in the 1980s and 1990s, including ...
The Nacra 17 is a performance catamaran used for sailing. It was designed in 2011, went into production in 2012 and has been the focus of multihull sailing at the Olympic Games since its conception. The Nacra has been converted to a sailing hydrofoil for the 2020 Tokyo and 2024 Paris (Marseille) Olympics. [1]
Lagoon catamaran is a brand of twin-hulled boats that are designed and produced in Bordeaux, France. The company began in 1984 as a specialist multihull division of Jeanneau , a volume monohull constructor.
The ISAF International Class Hobie 16 (H16) is a popular catamaran manufactured by the Hobie Cat Company for racing and day sailing.The craft was the driving force behind the popularization of beachcats and was recently [when?] inducted into the Sailing Hall of Fame.
G. Prout and Sons of Canvey Island, Essex, in the United Kingdom, was initially a builder of folding dinghies, canoes and kayaks founded in 1935.In the 1950s, the company moved to the construction of small sailing catamarans with Shearwater I and later Shearwater III, which the National Maritime Museum describes as the first production catamaran in the world. [2]
The yacht is a multihull, specifically, a catamaran, built in aluminium and featuring four decks. [5] It was built by Astilleros Armón Burela, of Navia, Asturias, at is Burela shipyard, in La Mariña Central, Galicia; [1] [6] it was the largest boat built there to date. [7]