Editing Catamaran (section)

=== Stability ===

Catamarans rely primarily on form stability to resist heeling and capsize.<ref name=Garrett>{{cite book | last = Garrett | first = Ross | title = The Symmetry of Sailing: The Physics of Sailing for Yachtsmen | publisher = Sheridan House, Inc. | date = January 1, 1996  | page = 133 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0VLXORumEF4C&q=catamaran&pg=PA133 | isbn = 9781574090000}}</ref> Comparison of heeling stability of a rectangular-cross section [[monohull]] of beam, ''B'', compared with two catamaran hulls of width ''B''/2, separated by a distance, 2×''B'', determines that the catamaran has an initial resistance to heeling that is seven times that of the monohull.<ref>{{cite book | last1 = Biran | first1 = Adrian | last2 = Pulido | first2 = Ruben Lopez  | title = Ship Hydrostatics and Stability | publisher = Butterworth-Heinemann | edition = 2 | year = 2013 | page = 67 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=LostoMz5ZpMC&q=catamaran+stability&pg=PA66 | isbn = 978-0080982908 }}</ref> Compared with a monohull, a cruising catamaran sailboat has a high initial resistance to heeling and capsize—a fifty-footer requires four times the force to initiate a capsize than an equivalent monohull.<ref name = Offshore>{{ cite book | last1 = Howard | first1 = Jim | last2 = Doane | first2 = Charles J. | title = Handbook of Offshore Cruising: The Dream and Reality of Modern Ocean Cruising | publisher = Sheridan House, Inc | date = 2000 | pages = 36–8 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=NB4uFQuUlnEC&q=capsize&pg=PA38 | access-date = 2016-01-27 | isbn = 1574090933 }}<!-- This ref listed total pages instead of a specific page; the best support I could find for the assertion of four times the force is in figure 5.1 on p. 38, showing approx. 200,000 ft. pounds max stability for a 50 foot catamaran vs approx. 50,000 ft. pounds max stability for a 50 foot monohull. --></ref>