Catamaran Sinking

[Thumbs Up]

I am going to chime in here because I truly believe that my catamaran can not sink. It is plywood and timber construction with boxed crossbeams. I don't carry a life raft and like to remind myself at sea that I will not sink. It brings me great comfort. I am not sure exactly which parts would submerge should both hulls flood but I think it would float fairly high in the bows and maybe to deck level in the sterns. I would also like to mention that it will be for sale soon...

[Morph]

My take on this is that it is very much up to both the design and the materials. My boat is made of western red cedar and foam and has 7 watertight compartments in each hull. I also have some evidence that it is unsinkable to some degree as the sister ship was flipped in the Whitsundays and floated happily for a week before they got it out--it's sailing fine these days My guess is that I could rip out the bottom of one hull and still be afloat--however as someone said, it would not be comfortable, nor even habitable for long.

Whether production boats have as much watertight compartments I don't know and obviously different building materials have different flotation characteristics

[danielamartindm]

Whenever a vessel is lost, the temptation is to convince ourselves why this could never happen to OUR vessel; and when it's a multihull that was lost, voices seem to chime in to condemn multihulls in a way that never seems to happen when a monohull sinks. Why can't we support each other?