On a sailboat, each head (bathroom) normally has a shower. On the back of my catamaran, I also have a shower which is simply a flexible hose with a shower head that is stored in a compartment; I use this one the most. Your showers use potable water that is stored in your water tank(s) and you need to refill them when you are docked or collect rain water or have a water maker.
Catamarans have phenomenal stability, they do not heel under way (due to the wide beam) and do not roll at anchor. Monohulls use heavy, weighted keels suspended under water to keep the boat upright. In theory, no matter how much you heel, gravity will not let the keel come out of the water (in theory). A multihull substitutes its breadth or beam for the monohull's heavy keel. So a monohull can heel more by design (30+ degrees vs. 15+ degrees) during maximum winds. The disadvantage is that the message (sailor feeling the boat in response to the wind) is delayed sailing a catamaran where as you see/feel it right away with a monohull.
I have been sailing the Pacific with continuous gale force 8 winds gusting to 10 and I just ride the rodeo. The key is how much if any of your sail do you have unfurled. I have had my cat past maximum out in crosswind, with every square inch of sail, heeling with the port boards slightly coming out of the water in the BVI´s (British Virgin Islands) pushing it, there comes a point when you have too much wind and too much sail out that you will turtle (monohull or cat). Any boat with a very high sail to weight ratio is more likely to capsize. Catamarans are usually a lot heavier. I mentioned in one of my posts that I have traded off some speed for heavier weighted hulls with a deeper draft.
This increases the stability even more. Also consider that an upside down catamaran will float (there is also a normal glass escape hatch for this) whereas a monohull will generally sink. Furthermore, there is a decreased likelihood of hypothermia, broken limbs, lost crewmembers and losing half of the value of the boat, i.e. the interior destroyed by the inrushing water.
The historic catamaran was the workboat of the Polynesian Pacific. Thor Heyerdahl's Kon Tiki expedition of 1947 used a modern replica of this type of craft. 45 ft. long, 18 ft. wide, rigged with a squaresail, manoeuvered by daggerboards, it could sail sufficiently against the wind to be a true sailing craft. It carried a crew of six across the Pacific. With its beam and weight, it was practically impossible to capsize and thus had stability, an essential part of seaworthiness. The concept of static stability in the design is that point where you have the moment of truth about capsizing and dynamic stability is when it is safe to sail along with all sails hoisted and have sufficient reserve stability to meet safely any wind gusts (usually 60% of static stability).
Solar power can normally run everything except the air conditioning for long periods. The stoves are normally gas.
As for the best place to sail, that depends on so many things. Do you want to sail a lot, then you need to be closer to the trade winds (Caribbean), do you want to be in warmer water or colder water? Do you want a lot of sunshine? How about language or the type of women? Is it difficult to resupply or get maintenance if you need it?
The Caribbean generally has a lot to offer as there is so much to see in a relatively small area, but there are also more boats as other people recognize the advantages. I have sailed in the Caribbean a lot, and I mean a lot. One time I spend 18 months just tooling around the Caribbean (and I had already sailed it on occasion for years and years) seeing all of the little details. So, it is also a function of your time. Is your boat already there, can you fly to it, do you need to sail it from point A to point B?
There are many hidden secret places in the Philippines and especially Indonesia, you can spend huge amounts of time there, but it is also a little hotter and the winds are not as good (overall) as other places; so you need more time. Monsoon season is not a good time, just like hurricane season is not a good time to cross the Atlantic or be in parts of the Caribbean. Weather becomes a huge factor for planning and safety. The weather in the Caribbean is general good. Going through the Baltic, around Scotland or up the Norwegian coast in January is brisk and there can be ice.
I enjoy the Med, but it is harder to anchor generally due to grassy bottoms and the wind can be more challenging. You can also have some unpredictable weather just ask the Romans or Greeks. Europe is very different (in a good way) from the perspective of a boat, particularly the Baltic. So what continent is best also depends on your activities. I can tell you it was so cool to sail into Venice and dock my boat there. The Adriatic offers more than meets the eye.
I am an avid surfer, so that is one of my considerations. I also have a boatload of LTR´s (depending on how you define LTR) and FB´s around the world. A girl in every port is my model of abundance. If I am in the mood for X vs. Y vs. Z, I may go in that direction, have them (fly to) meet me at a nearby pick-up point, or simply sail to that country. Then I may stay there and hop from port to port, or in stay in port, or dry dock my boat and stay in country for few months, or some combination with my houses.
For me it is about doing what I want, where I want, when I want, how I want and with whom I want.
It is most certainly a unique way to see the world and many more opportunities are available to you by boat.
As it relates to women, and I touched upon this in some of my earlier posts, having a woman or women out to sea and especially sailing form island to island and living on an island puts them in an environment that is unlike the modern world and more like days gone by. They realize that they need you to survive. The do not know where to go, how to get there, how to get food or what to do in an emergency and they become conscious of this very quickly (usually in a few days). When the women sailing with you have the lack of inputs that are normally there to meet their attention seeking behavior, they either freak out fast (usually within 2 days) or they acclimate and become a different animal and the inputs form the wind, sea, sun, boat and you are more than enough.
A quick sea story. I was sailing with this one chick out of San Diego and we were going to Hawaii, but I decided to go via Catalina Island first (my intuition). Bitch be freaking before we got there and I turned the boat around, dropped her at the dock, told her to jump out while the boat was moving…no just kidding, I wanted to see if you were paying attention... I docked the boat and made sure she had a cab and then headed back out within the hour and changed course south to Mexico (I did not want her tracking me down or pulling some crazy bat shit maneuver) did some great surfing in Mexico, picked up a babe and took her to Costa Rica, dropped her off, surfed my ass off and picked up another hottie and sailed to the next destination. Life was good.
After that experience I got better at weeding out certain qualities and did day sails and over nighters before embarking on a long trip with ass on board. Lesson learned, and there are many lessons out there as a sailor.