Editing Catamaran (section)

=== Sport ===
[[File:Gitana 13.jpg|thumb|[[Gitana 13]], an ocean-racing catamaran]]

Recreational and sport catamarans typically are designed to have a crew of two and be launched and landed from a beach. Most have a trampoline on the bridging structure, a rotating mast and full-length battens on the mainsail. Performance versions often have trapezes to allow the crew to hike out and counterbalance capsize forces during strong winds on certain points of sail.<ref>{{ cite book | last = Berman | first = Phil | title = Catamaran Sailing: From Start to Finish | publisher = W. W. Norton & Co. Inc | date = March 1982 | pages = <!-- 209   ... probably number of pages in book --> | isbn = 978-0393000849}}</ref>

For the [[33rd America's Cup]], both the defender and the challenger built {{convert|90|ft|m|adj=on}} long multihulls. [[Société Nautique de Genève]], defending with team [[Alinghi]], sailed a catamaran. The challenger, BMW Oracle Racing, used a trimaran, replacing its soft sail rig with a towering [[wing sail]]—the largest sailing wing ever built. In the waters off [[Valencia]], Spain in February 2010, the BMW Oracle Racing trimaran with its powerful wing sail proved to be superior. This represented a break from the traditional monohulls that had always been sailed in previous [[America's Cup]] series.<ref>{{ cite news | agency = Associated Press | title = BMW Oracle wins America's Cup | publisher = ESPN | date = February 14, 2010 | url = https://www.espn.com/olympics/news/story?id=4913750 | access-date = 2016-01-27}}</ref>

On San Francisco Bay, the [[2013 America's Cup]] was sailed in {{convert|72|ft|m|adj=on}} long [[AC72]] catamarans (craft set by the rules for the 2013 America's Cup). Each yacht employed [[Sailing hydrofoil|hydrofoil]]s and a wing sail. The regatta was won 9–8 by [[Oracle Team USA]] against the challenger, [[Emirates Team New Zealand]], in fifteen matches because Oracle Team USA had started the regatta with a two-point penalty.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/sailing/24274103|title=Ben Ainslie's USA beat Team New Zealand in decider|date=September 26, 2013|work=BBC Sport|access-date=September 26, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/oracle-team-usa-completes-historic-america-cup-comeback-article-1.1467496|title=Oracle Team USA completes greatest comeback in America's Cup history, defeating Emirates New Zealand|date=September 25, 2013|work=New York Daily News|access-date=September 26, 2013|archive-date=September 29, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130929085318/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/oracle-team-usa-completes-historic-america-cup-comeback-article-1.1467496|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Yachting has seen the development of multihulls over {{convert|100|ft|m}} in length. "[[The Race (yachting race)|The Race]]" helped precipitate this trend; it was a circumnavigation challenge which departed from Barcelona, Spain, on New Year's Eve, 2000. Because of the prize money and prestige associated with this event, four new catamarans (and two highly modified ones) over {{convert|100|ft|m}} in length were built to compete. The largest, ''[[PlayStation (yacht)|PlayStation]]'', owned by [[Steve Fossett]], was {{convert|125|ft|m}} long and had a mast which was {{convert|147|ft|m}} above the water. Virtually all of the new mega-cats were built of pre-preg [[carbon fiber]] for strength and the lowest possible weight. The top speeds of these boats can approach {{convert|50|kn|mph km/h}}. The Race was won by the {{convert|33.50|m|abbr=on}}-long catamaran ''[[Club Med (yacht)|Club Med]]'' skippered by [[Grant Dalton]]. It went round the globe in 62 days at an average speed of {{convert|18|kn|mph km/h}}.<ref>{{ cite book | last = Zimmermann | first = Tim | title = The Race: Extreme Sailing and Its Ultimate Event: Nonstop, Round-the-World, No Holds Barred | publisher = Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | date = 2004 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=WI7U45COn1EC&q=catamaran&pg=PT128 | isbn = 0547347065 }}</ref>