So I was researching for my project and I was working on the "different types of sailboats" section. I learned that there are huge differences between monohulls and multihulls besides the number of hulls.
Monohulls are sailboats with- guess what?- one hull. The picture above basically says it all. The thing with mono's (that's what I'm calling them. It takes too long to write out the whole thing, gosh!) is that they need a ballast, or something heavy, to put in the center of the boat in order to stabilize the boat because apparently without it, it can roll over easily and that's not good. And because of that ballast, it's slower than its true potential and not so easy to manuever.
However, these are the most common and most popular, especially for leisure sailing.
Multihulls have more than one hull, usually two, sometimes three, and these multiple hulls allow for stability without a ballast. In turn, no ballast means higher top speeds and easier manueverability. Also, it adds bouyancy so that if all quarters were full of water, the boat would still float.
So which one would I rather have? Despite the multi seemingly being much better, I have to go with a mono. I don't know why, It just draws me to it, it's wierd. I like it though. No judgments.
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