News — Sailing

Form fitted The hull form used in a particular catamaran design will have great bearing on both its performance and carry capacity as discussed in the previous tech tip.  The slenderness of the hulls will greatly impact both the performance and the carry capacity, however, the sectional shape of the hull – meaning, the shape if you sliced the hull up like a loaf of bread – will impact the usable space in the hull.  Cat hulls have been traditionally slender, high length to beam ratio hulls with slack bilged section shapes which minimize wetted surface.  As discussed before, the high...