Many people have asked me how a catamran looks like. OK Here is a representative picture. Yes the actual catamran is more like a raft rather then what most people are used to. I see pictures of catamarans which are rather sophisticated. The true catamaran is what you see here and is used by some of the bravest fishermen in the world. This is the type of boats that we are going to be giving away to the fishermen here in Chennai. Yes these are used by the fishermen to go into the oceans to fish and they come back with enough catch which they sell to make a living. The word catamaran comes from the Tamil Language and is actually two words which has now fused into one. The two words are Kattu and Maram. Maram means wood and Kattu means tied together. Thus catamaran means in tamil pieces of wood tied together.