"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?

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

no idea, I know no one with an Irwin 32

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


how many mono's "have gone around the world" in 358 days"

there are -- right now -- several thousand mono's heading west around the
world, as compared to four or five cats. There are zero point zero cats
heading east around the world.

there is a reasons for that.

You're cracking us up, jaxie! You're just making up numbers, like you always
do - show us a link please, or go away. There are lots of cats out there
cruising. It would only take a google to find dozens of stories of
circumnavigations.

BTW, do you even know the difference between East and West? Remember, two
multihulls recently completed eastbound circumnavigations - the cat Cheyenne in
58 days, the other a tri, Geronimo in 63 days.



"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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How many monohulls have gone around the world in 58 days?


how many mono's "have gone around the world" in 358 days"

there are -- right now -- several thousand mono's heading west around the
world, as compared to four or five cats. There are zero point zero cats
heading east around the world.

there is a reasons for that.

BTW, do you even know the difference between East and West? Remember, two
multihulls recently completed eastbound circumnavigations - the cat Cheyenne
in
58 days, the other a tri, Geronimo in 63 days.

jeffies, clown that you are, even YOU knew those were racing boats when you
wrote it. go find a cruising cat that has passed Horn to starboard. Even one.

so many mono's have done so no one can even count them, for it seldom is noted
by anyone buy the mono driver.

OK, you have me there - the next time I leave Cape Horn to Starboard, I'll do it
in a monohull, not a cat. BTW, I'll also know that's headed West, not East, as
you claimed.




"JAXAshby" wrote in message
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BTW, do you even know the difference between East and West? Remember, two
multihulls recently completed eastbound circumnavigations - the cat Cheyenne
in
58 days, the other a tri, Geronimo in 63 days.

jeffies, clown that you are, even YOU knew those were racing boats when you
wrote it. go find a cruising cat that has passed Horn to starboard. Even
one.

so many mono's have done so no one can even count them, for it seldom is noted
by anyone buy the mono driver.

You're cracking us up, jaxie!

jeffies, you crack up wathcing Sesame Street, though the Smurfs confuse you a
bit.

There are lots of cats out there
cruising.

cruising is coastal cruising included. hell there are even mac 26's that have
made it to the Bahamas, and a few have made it back.

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.

JEFFIES!! for the kriste's sake!! mono's are not capabable of capasizing due
to winds alone. mono's *require* a special set of circumstance with -----
waves ----- to turn upside down. cats -- on the other hand -- can and do flip
over due to wind alone.