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Catamaran
Catamaran Cat`a*ma*ran", n. [The native East Indian name.]
1. A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or
pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or
sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the
coasts of the East and West Indies and South America.
Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of
North America, and at life-saving stations.
2. Any vessel with twin hulls, whether propelled by sails or
by steam; esp., one of a class of double-hulled pleasure
boats remarkable for speed.
3. A kind of fire raft or torpedo bat.
The incendiary rafts prepared by Sir Sidney Smith
for destroying the French flotilla at Boulogne,
1804, were called catamarans. --Knight.
4. A quarrelsome woman; a scold. [Colloq.]
Meaning of Catamaran from wikipedia
- A
catamaran (/ˌkætəməˈræn/) (informally, a "cat") is a
watercraft with two
parallel hulls of
equal size. The wide
distance between a
catamaran's hulls...
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Amaryllis was a
catamaran sailboat designed by
Nathanael Greene Herreshoff and
launched in 1876. It was an
innovative and
experimental vessel for its...
- (10 m)
sailing catamaran designed by
Nathanael Greene Herreshoff. She was
launched in 1877, a year
after Herreshoff's
smaller catamaran Amaryllis won the...
- of high-speed
craft ferry routes. Many
routes are
operated by
catamarans, as
catamarans are a
faster craft than a
similar sized monohulls. In the 1990s...
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sailing catamarans. Its fibergl****
catamaran models range in
nominal length between 14 feet (4.3 m) and 18 feet (5.5 m).
Rotomolded catamaran models range...
- The
International B-class/F20
Catamaran, is a
development class, on the
comeback after the
fracturing of the
original B-class, into the
myriad of one...
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Incat Tasmania is an
Australian manufacturer of high-speed
craft (HSC)
catamaran ferries. Its
greatest success has been with large, sea
going p****enger...
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Rongo was a 40 ft (12 m)
ketch rigged catamaran built in 1958 in
Trinidad by
James Wharram and
sailed by him and his two
German women companions, Jutta...
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although greater stability can be
achieved by
using the
wider planform of a
catamaran or trimaran. Some
multihulls use
three foils; two main
forward foils provide...
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Heslop (born 19
December 1979) is a
British woman who went
missing from a
catamaran,
moored in a bay off the
western coast of
Saint John, one of the United...
