Depending on how you define the terms, the number is 3 or 4 or 5. Several cases involved
skipper incompetence, though this is often the case with hindsight. But one was
particularly bad - the entire crew didn't have foul weather gear and in a gale refused to
go on deck to reef or control the boat - it flipped on autopilot! I know of another
autopilot assisted capsize, but it was in a smaller cat that I would include as a cruiser.

The only case I know of where the skipper did every thing right and still flipped was in a
hurricane off Bermuda (1987?). A number of monohulls were lost without a trace during
that storm, but the crew of the flipped cat was rescued. Unfortunately the owner/skipper
died because his diabetes medicine was lost.

Trimarans have a much worse record - since they can fly an ama they run the risk of
stuffing the lee bow with serious stability problems. IIRC the "F" club reports only 1
capsize of a Farrier design ever while cruising, but several a year while racing.




"Bobsprit" wrote in message
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You keep claiming cruising cats capsize. They don't.

How many cruising cats have flipped over in the last 15 years?
I can't even find one case online for a cruiser like Jeffs.

RB