"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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You should try a cat sometime, jaxie, if you're not afraid of going too fast.
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Cruising cats are only marginally faster than cruising mono's,

Marginally? Perhaps - but its often a 25% margin. Sometimes 50%. If we're
talking "cruising boats" they tend to stay below about 8 knots, while I've been
above 12 knots a number of times.

and cats are not
safe in stormy seas.

How so? The record says otherwise.

cruising cats are better suited for coastal cruising, and
offshore work thoroughly planned around weather.

You can say that about lots of boats. The vast majority of mid-sized cruising
boats, both monos and cats, are designed as coastal cruisers because that's what
people actually do. That's what makes this argument particularly silly.

And if you really want a "blue water" catamaran you can get a Prout - 5000
built, hundreds circumnavigations, thousands of long distance passages, zero
capsizes.



cats can be tipped over by wind.

But, in fact, its only happened a few times to a modern cruising cat. I asked
you to provide a link to such an event - you provided a number of links, but
they were to the Iroquois, a small, 45 year old design that did indeed have
problems, several beach cats, and a Rout du Rhum extreme racing tri. We're
still waiting for you to prove your allegations.

Frankly, I've been searching for such events for about 10 years and the list is
pretty small. Most writers put the number at 3 or 4 in the last 20 years,
depending on how you define "modern cruising cat."


cruising mono's can't.

That isn't really so. But certainly any weather that has the capability to flip
a cat could also roll or sink a mono.