Vintage wooden boat with mast in the bay of Trou deau douce

View of a old-styled wooden boat with sails down in the turquoise lagoon of Trou d'eau Douce. A sailboat is by definition a boat that is mainly propelled by the force of the wind, a capricious ecological fuel. Since the beginning, sailing ships have had very broad missions. Many types of sailboats have been built for hundreds of years, including galleons, dhows, junk boats, dinghies, keelboats, schooners, trimarans. With technology, the machines are always more revolutionary and always attract the curiosity of men. Discover the different types of sailboats! The cruising sailboat is a boat that measures more than six meters long with hulls made of wood, plastic, aluminum or wood composite. This type of boat is robust and equipped with a long bulbous or short fin keel. There are not only monohulls in this category of cruising yachts. They are now competing with the large catamarans. Their advantage is that they reach performances inaccessible to the monohull. And that their comfort is more and more interesting.