"Hitting the hits"

"hitting the rocks"

A number of cats have
survived with hull damage that would sink a monohull

really? now you are comparing a $300,000 cat with a ten year old Mac 26

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.

you only hear that story "because the crew was rescued" (same as for mono's).
when the boat goes down without a trace you hear nothing.

A monohull with a serious leak will usually sink
in a matter of minutes.

and a cat that turns upside down due to a wind gust usually kills the crew.

very few boats sink "out there" jeffies, but as a percentage of boats "out
there" by hull type, cats are disabled and/or sink at a higher % rate than
mono's. And if you compare $ spent to buy the boat, cats REALLY sink at a
hugely higher rate.

cats need to watch the weather (and weather season) and they need to stay close
enough to shore to dive in should nasty weather be a coming.

btw, how many cruising cats did you say you know of that have round Cape Horn?
How about from east to west?