Editing Catamaran (section)

=== Small, personal boats ===
The distribution of the boat's volume, namely its buoyancy away from its center-line increases its stability beyond the stability offered by mono-hulled vessels of similar size, and even bigger ones. Narrow beamed, personal twin-hulled boats designed for paddling (e.g. [[Kayak|kayaks]] and [[Canoe|canoes]]), and for powering by small portable motors (e.g. microskiffs, [[Johnboat|Jon boats]], and [[Dinghy|dinghies]]) in which the user/s and passenger/s ride a type of saddle seat similar to the seat featuring in [[Personal watercraft|Personal Watercraft (PWC)]] have been produced since 2004 in the United States by a company named Wavewalk. The W720 Kayak-Skiff is 31 inches wide, and the S4 Microskiff is 38 inches wide, and both allow paddling, driving, and fishing standing up in full confidence, thanks to their [https://wavewalk.com/blog/fishing-kayak-stability/ enhanced stability].