Can a catamaran capsize?

Yes — a catamaran can capsize, but a cruising charter cat almost never does. Capsizes happen in two scenarios: extreme racing on lightweight performance hulls, and freak weather (microbursts, knockdowns) on cruising hulls with sails carrying way too much wind. The charter cats brokered through Vital — Lagoon, Bali, Fountaine Pajot, Sunreef — are heavy, wide-beam cruisers with safety margins that put capsizing near zero in normal Caribbean conditions. Catamarans don’t heel the way monohulls do; they sit flat. The trade-off is they don’t right themselves once they’re over, so a captain reefs early and reads weather conservatively. In a brokered week with a professional crew, gust handling is a non-issue. Caribbean charter conditions are tame compared to where capsizes actually happen.