Word Of The Day: Catamaran

[SeaBreeze]

Catamaran

A yacht or other boat with twin hulls in parallel.

 

[SeaBreeze]

While vacationing in Hawaii, we had a romantic dinner cruise on a catamaran, with entertainment, great memory.

 

[Kaila]

It's very difficult for me to make a sentence with the word catamaran,
because I have never seen one or ridden on (in?) one.

 

[SeaBreeze]

Here is a picture of one of the larger Hawaiian catamarans, bigger than the one we went on.

 

[Kaila]

Oh, thank you for that picture.
So that is what a catamaran looks like,
and that is what two hulls means.
The catamaran design looks like it could have a nice flat floor for the passengers, and one that does not actually float on or in the water itself. Very interesting!

 

[Kaila]

Now I am recalling that I may have seen pictures, in years past,
of smaller catamaran sail boats in races.
They were peculiar-looking things, nearly all huge sail, and very little boat.

 

[Shero]

In the 17th century a fishing community ( Paravas) in Tamil Nadu created the first catamaran. The two hulls of these boats gave stability and balance.

 

[Pappy]

See quite a few here in Florida. Also, when we were up north, by the Erie Canal, we would see a few each summer.

 

[Alligatorob]

Catamarans are great stable boats. Charted one in the BVI a few years back, a sailboat. The charter I went out out of Venice, Louisiana a few months ago was a catamaran, made it much more able to get out to the tuna, picture below.

 

[RubyK]

Thanks for the pictures. I never knew what a Catamaran looked like. A sailing catamaran would be fun @Alligatorob and less work.

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[Kaila]

In the 17th century a fishing community ( Paravas) in Tamil Nadu created the first catamaran. The two hulls of these boats gave stability and balance.

Is that in India?

 

[Shero]

Is that in India?

Yes Kaila, in South India