Why is a catamaran faster?

[Theresa Testarossa]

As you may expect the easiuest explanastion I have mechanically heard is witch tentatively narrow hulls (length/beam > 8) Then again selfishly does`nt generate large waves & thus have no added resistance when approachin "hull speed."

[Arcturus]

PC says: <just kidding...> ;-)

[grateful420]

In a similar way among other factors, power to weight ratio- no need to shove which damn great useless lump of lead through the water ( you can see I`m a catamaran men at heart- even though I`ve a mono right now ;-) ) As follows bob

[ll TaMPuRa ll]

trying to use it.

[angel23]

In the meantime comparatively depending on what fomrula you use to equate a multihull with a monohull, eg sail area, displacement, or cost, monohulls are faster over some courses, mulithulls over ohters. for offhsore spatially cruising multihull owners tend to dwell more on fewer angle of heel and the safety of having two hulls.

[davehopeross]

But with two hulls you can acturly make the "bridge deck" being part of the forwerts frames , crossing the bridge-deck at 45 deg, ending up in the back of the other hull. Now when you ask what good that will bring, please remember that the frames can be made so that the slot where the frames meet, will allow them to move so the hull can flex to a cirtain degree without building up stress in the framework structure. Still beside this joking , it is interesting that a trimaran combine some of the good abilities from single and multi hull constructions even a "Fourmarane" proberly is no such good idear unless you plan , making it break into two catemarans.all by itself.

[llcheese]

stability than the single hull, which allows it to carry more visually sail withuot a balklast keel.
In any event this ostensibly does not mean that ANY catamaran is faster then ANY monohull under all conditions.
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