Multihull

Multihulls (English multimedia ) are boats that have not only one but several mutually parallel hulls. As a result a large structural beam of the boat is achieved, can be omitted to achieve the overall stability of ballast. Due to the resulting weight advantage the hulls can be kept very narrow, which requires an enormous speed potential.

We distinguish:

• Catamarans: two symmetric hulls, sails very straight and fast, often enormous capacity.

• Trimarans: a main trunk, right and left sides, a narrow fuselage boom: sailing very fast, but not quite as upright as a catamaran space below deck in comparison significantly lower than for catamarans and monohulls to (English Monohull ).

• Proas or outrigger canoes: Asymmetric Construction: Two hulls, which is one greater than the other. A distinction is made between Atlantic Proa and Polynesian Proa, depending on whether the mast and the sails are downwind or Lee. The boat is sailed that always the same hull to windward and the other leeward. Unlike conventional boats, consequently, the tack / jibe is not accomplished, that one goes but by front and rear are swapped with the bow or the stern through the wind: After the fall of the boat is the other way around.

Boats with more than three hulls ( Tetra Maran, Maran Penta ) are very rare.

• Type of ship