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From: jmcpeak_sail (no email)
Date: Tue May 09 2006 - 10:33:03 EDT
I'm definitly thinking a cat is the way to go for me as well.
What I'm looking for is why other cruisers (keel or trawl) think a cat
is hard and/or dangerous to handle in heavy seas.
My thoughts:
Modern cats with their mains being roller cars and their roller
reefing genoas can reef very quickly. Also if you realling get in the
heavy stuff, thowing a sea anchor over would keep you safe (I'm
thinking of an easy to deploy sea anchor like a Para-Tech).
Any cat info from cat owners who have been in heavy seas would be
really great.
Regards,
Jason
>
> OKIDOKI but even a cat has issues in nasty weather
> (assuming you wish to discuss sailing cats and not
> the powered trawler style cats) only a monohull is
> 'self tending'and will look after you in the really
> nasty stuff without 'too much' imput from you - for
> sure a catamaran wont - in the heavy weather you need
> to be totally switched on and make all the right decisions
> (when maybe your not in the correct frame of mind to make
> these sort of decisions)(and i am a big cat fan) and nor
> IMHO would a trawler no matter how many hulls it had
> though i do have to say i have little experience of such
> a beast.
>
> regards
>
> David
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