While reading rec.boats.cruising, I noticed Jeff felt
compelled to write:

Mic wrote:

Some cat owners put no-skid on the underside of the bridge deck as it
makes a more comfortable platform when or if they turn turtle.....


Where did you pick up that nonsense? There's been almost no capsizes
of cruising cats - less than a dozen in the last 20 years if you only
count over 35 feet and actually being cruised by owners. And I've
never heard of a capsize that wasn't really caused by too much sail.

Heh, another mono -v- multi fable. The fairing time and expense saved
by applying non-skid to out of sight areas is the main reason to do
this, of course. Nobody actually expects to ever walk on the stuff,
but if the unthinkable happens, it's another form of preparation.

Reefing early to gust speed and keeping enough sea-room to bear off
will keep any modern, well designed multihull right-side-up.

Ian