Hull form · What it is for
Sailing CatamaransCoastal Cruising
Sailing Catamarans
Two hulls set apart, which buys stability from geometry rather than from lead. A cruising catamaran sails level, draws little, and gives a family more room on a given length than a monohull can; the trade is that it does not right itself if it ever goes over, so its margins are designed rather than recovered. It is the form that has grown fastest in cruising over the last two decades.
Coastal Cruising
Boats certified and sized for the coast: CE Category B or C, up to 16 metres for a sailing yacht and up to 24 metres for a motor yacht, racers excluded. Above 24 metres a boat is a crewed yacht under the Large Yacht Code rather than something a family takes out, which is where this list stops. A motor boat that publishes no CE class still counts when its type is a day type -- sport cruiser, day boat, bowrider, centre console, RIB, jet boat, pontoon -- and it is 16 metres or under, because those types are built for the coast by definition.
The catalogue holds no boat that meets both of these yet.