"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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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.

Its the old "you never hear about the the ones that just disappeared" argument.
That odd, we do hear about monohulls that "go missing," but we never hear about
cats.


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.

Why don't you post a link to such an occurance? Cruising cats, not racers.


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.

Total nonsense. You haven't even provided a single instance of this happening.

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.

And an Irwin 32 never needs to consider the weather at all?


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

How many monohulls have gone around the world in 58 days?