Hull form · What it is for

Sailing CatamaransShort-Handed Sailing

Sailing Catamarans · Short-Handed Sailing: YachtCodex lists 12 models, 11.4–13.9 m long. The builders with the most are Seawind Catamarans (4), Lagoon (3), and Bali (2). The largest in production is the Lagoon 43 (13.9 m); the shallowest draft is the Seawind 1160 Resort's (1.10 m).

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.

Short-Handed Sailing

Sailing yachts a couple or a singlehander can manage without a crew. The criteria are a length overall between 9 and 14.5 metres -- the familiar advice that two people can handle up to about 45 feet -- and an upwind sail area of 110 square metres or less, or, where no upwind area is published, a mainsail of 60 square metres or less; racers are excluded. Where a boat offers a self-tacking jib or in-mast furling, its own page records that among the reasons it is here.

Models: 12
Builders: 6
Length range: 11.4–13.9 m37–45 ft
In production: 12