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Every boater is aware that Australians and New Zealanders know their boats. And catamarans aren't ugly to them: despite a much smaller population, there are four times more power catamarans in Australia and New Zealand than there are here. They know that the smoothness of the ride, especially in their infamously rough water, is superior to any monohull's.

Cats are incredibly simple to operate: once you learn the basics of keeping a proper trim you'll be 90% of the way to being an expert. Experienced boaters will tell you that learning to drive a catamaran was easy...and they'll never go back to a monohull.

Cats are extremely stable and have been compared to barges with their flat surface on a dual hull design.

The average cat boat owner has owned 7 or more offshore boats. They have the experience and know their bodies cannot take the pounding of a mono-hull. They also keep their cats longer than they kept their mono-hull. When they buy a new boat they most likely will buy another cat

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High demand for used boats and limited supply since customers keep cats longer keeps used boat prices high

This cat handles the rough water! See for yourself.

Watch this power catamaran turn inboard. Powercats have much better rough water handling than a mono hull and bank in a turn.

See Captain Steve run the World Cat 320CC through its paces.

The dynamics of these cat boat are truly amazing. Generally at low speeds in a Catamaran the boat is going to lean outboard, but at low speeds you are NOT likely to throw anyone out. At high rates of speeds a cat will lean inboard like a mono-hull.

Just like in a mono-hull if you trim the bow down this causes more resistance on the bow and can cause it to be more difficult to steer in a following sea. But if you trim the bow up, the boat will go up and over the following sea and it will drive beautifully. The following video disproves this myth.

The purpose of a catamaran is to handle the heavy seas; which is what they were designed to do. They were developed in South Africa to handle the heavy seas. Cats can be used when the bigger 50'-60' boaters go out on the heavy seas and can run as fast if not faster. The mono-hulls cannot compete with this in the bigger seas.

At slow speeds with a head sea due to fluid dynamics if tunnel (space between the hulls) is blocked by a wave, then hit by another wave then there could be a slight mist. However, the World Cat has a hydropod between the two hulls that breaks up the pressure that usually resolves this issue.

Catamarans are the best boats in a head sea. The analogy would be would you prefer to push your way through the water with palm first, or the side of both hands; which do you think would cause you less resistance? There is no other boat Dean would prefer to be in with a head sea.

Because of the tunnel between the two hulls this makes it more aerodynamic with less resistance, which means better fuel economy when towing.

Cat boats are designed to flex and have not heard of one breaking.

Vacuum infusion of the first World Cat 320CC Center Console using Ashland AME-6000 Vinylester Resin. The actual infusion of this hull took 55 minutes, this video has been increased to approx 5x speed to watch the process in less than 10 minutes.

This video was shot during the final testing and seatrials of the brand new World Cat 320CC Center Console that utilizes a vacuum infused hull and other new features to reduce the weight of the boat approx 20%.