"Capt.American" wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/359134.stm

More than 150 people have been rescued during a regatta in Weymouth
Bay, Dorset, after 77 yachts capsized during a squall.

That was a quite a while ago.

These were beach cats, knucklehead. They are as much like cruising
multihulls as a Sunfish is like an IACC class racer.



Like I said, Cats are unstable and dangerious, should be used under
USCG supervision only.

Considering what would likely happen to you, if you were put in a
something like a 505 or a Johnson 18, and hit by a Force 4 much less 6,
you have no credibility whatever talking about catamaran sailing. You own
a heavy cow barn of a boat, what makes you think you this qualifies you to
talk about racing classes?

DSK