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> My point was made simply to illustrate that a cruising cat is a very stable
> vessel. They don't run on one hull like a hobie cat is designed to do. If
> mine ever did that I would have a cardiac.
:-)) Yes, I think I would too.
You are providing some very interesting information about cats that I
have not heard before. I am starting to form a whole different opinion
about them.
> He admited that they were going way too fast for the sea and wind conditions
> and that his error was the cause of the accident.
I know the feeling, having lost, years ago when I was ignorant and
inexperienced:-), one mast to too much sail up in too much wind,
another to the 14th Street Bridge in Wash, D.C. (yup, same one the plane
hit a few years later), and yet another small one to an electric wire
while hauling it up a ramp on a trailer. Not a very good place for a
wire, but I should have seen it anyway.
Now if someone could just invent an easy way to right a flipped cat, and
an easy way to lower a large mast to get under bridges, both types of
sailing would benefit immensely, especially when I'm on board. :-)
Dick
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