"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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Given that there's only been about 4 cruising cat capsizes in the last 20
years,
its a little hard to talk about "higher %"

with only 30 cruising cats out there, that is about 14%


OK -
Prout, 5000 built
Fountaine Pajot - 1300 built
Lagoon - about 1000 built
Gemini - 800

plus dozens of companies that have built a hundred or more - my PDQ has 100
sisterships. There are lots of cats out there jaxie, you just see them where
you are.


How many monos have sunk in the last 20 years?

From winds? with about 10,000 monos out there 2 is about 0.02%.

Lots of monos sink, though wind may only be one of several contributing causes.
If a mono is dismasted and the mast pokes a hole in the hull, did it sink from
the wind or the water? Do we care?


if you are thinking of boats sinking due to hitting the hits, there is no
difference between cats and mono's.

"Hitting the hits"? Sorry, I'm not familiar with that. A number of cats have
survived with hull damage that would sink a monohull. This was one of the
lessons learned from early designs - cats are now built with collision
bulkheads, watertight compartments, and sacrificial keels. When you do hear of
a cat sinking, the story is usually that it stayed afloat for a day so that the
crew had time to be rescued. A monohull with a serious leak will usually sink
in a matter of minutes.