Catamaran Sailing Confidence Clinic

By Nick Harvey, Lagoon Catamarans and Grant Headifen USCG 50 Ton Master Mariner

Tips to sailing a catamaran

You're going to charter a catamaran for a day or on a weeklong plus vacation
You've even considered chartering a catamaran
You thinking about buying a catamaran
Or if you're just looking to upgrade your existing boat, you may want to investigate a catamaran

The Catamaran Sailing Confidence Clinic is presented in three modules

Aboard your catamaran
Maneuvering your catamaran
- docking
- under power
- mooring and anchoring
- effective use of spring lines
Sailing your catamaran
- The sails and forces on them
- Under sail
- Tacking
- Gybing
- Reefing and heavy weather

More about the Catamaran Sailing Confidence Clinic

Essential tips for sailing a large catamaran
This Sailing Course takes approximately 3 hours of total time to complete
Take as long as you need to complete
Return as many times as you like to review
Take the online test as many times as you like
Adds the Catamaran Sailing Confidence Endorsement to your Sailing Certificate

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Student Reviews

Sailing a large catamaran is not really too much different from sailing a monohull but it has a few tricks and nuances that you ought to know first.

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You'll invest about 3 hours of your time to gain this Catamaran Sailing Endorsement to your NauticEd Sailing Certificate. The cost of the course is just ~~$39~~ ( for a limited introductory period it is $27). Once you've finished the clinic you'll have complete confidence that you can transition your existing monohull sailing skills to sailing a catamaran. And if you're going Chartering, Yacht Charter Companies will be more inclined to accept your reservation request. You'll learn the tricks of sailing a catamaran and maneuvering a catamaran so that you'll know what to do in potentially dangerous situations. The information contained will make sailing a catamaran much more enjoyable and less stressful that first time out and you'll have the confidence that maneuvering a catamaran is now easily with in your abilities.

As with all NauticEd sailing lessons, you can return as many times as you like to brush up on skills and if you're not completely satisfied, we'll happily refund your investment. Feel free to contact NauticEd Sailing School at any time.

The Catamaran Sailing Confidence Clinic was co-authored by several experts in sailing catamarans through out the world: Nick Harvey of Lagoon Catamarans and Captain Grant Headifen, 50 Ton USCG Master Mariner of NauticEd. Additional guidance and input was provided by George Day, Publisher of Blue Water Sailing Magazine and Multihull Quarterly Magazine

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Excerpt from the course

And if there wasn't enough advantages to sailing a catamaran here is another.

The mainsail traveler on a catamaran is significantly longer than on a cruising monohull. Thus you can take real advantage of this. The mainsail can now be adjusted in 2 different ways: using the traveler line or by adjusting the mainsheet.

When sailing closed hauled on a catamaran in heavier air, move the traveler up wind (on the opposite side of the sail) and let off on the main sheet. This will allow the boom to rise a little and "twist out" the top of the sail. Twisting the sail allows you to let some of the top part of the sail "deflate" in case of slightly stronger winds. In light air, make sure that the top of the mainsail is not “loosing air” meaning, keep the traveler close to the center and tighten the mainsheet pretty good to make sure the main cannot open up at the top.

As soon as the breeze kicks up, bring your traveler up a bit more and ease the mainsheet so that the boom does not come past center point.

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Once out sailing you'll be able to dispel one of the biggest "myths" surrounding catamarans because modern cats actually do do point pretty well!!
The flatter the water, the better they will point and it'll be possible to sail in the high 30’s degrees off the wind and if you cat has the genoa tracks up on the coach roof, you will have a nice tight sheeting angle allowing you to go upwind comfortably.

As soon as you bare away from the wind slightly, you will want to bring the mainsail traveler down to leeward and start easing the mainsail (similar to a monohull).

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