Although I'm a monohull boater at heart, I've been driving catamarans for a while. Most recently, I did a transatlantic (two of us on a Leopard 4800). It took me a couple of days to get used to the very different offshore motion on a cat, but in inclement weather, it was far easier to cook than on my J57! The noise level, both from the wake and from waves slamming, is higher on a catamaran than on a mono and that is a big difference. Docking a catamaran is easier than a mono (without a bowthruster). I do the same as the previous posters in that I lock the wheel dead-centre and don't use it for the final approach. Unlike a mono, where you need a bit of speed to get the rudder and keel work for directional stability, a catamaran like to go slowly. Unless there's a crosswind, where catamarans have a lot more windage and less weight/keel to stop it from going sideways. But those two engines with props quite far apart make for driving a catamaran like a tank while docking!

What I find is that the published windspeed and reefing values need to be adhered to. Religiously. A catamaran, unlike a monohull, gives very little feedback when it is overpowered.

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