[quote=yellowhulls17]I guess I can help out here with inland lake experience, monohull and cat experience
First, I also live on an inland lake with sometimes shifty winds.
Capsizing and pitch-poling can be prevented very easily if you know your and the boat's limits. As Andrew Scott said, if you push the boat bad things may happen. I have capsized 7 times and pitch-poled twice in 8 years of sailing beach cats, and that was in weather that was questionable for sailing :-D
As far as the monohull thing goes, they can and will capsize too, but there is NO experience like sailing a beam reach flying a hull and blasting past everyone else. Cat sailing is excitement and pure thrills.
Other nice thing with beach cats is they are a smaller hole in the water (cheaper) if you want it to be.
The hard part isn't deciding to buy a catamaran (they are great) but what cat to buy[/quote]
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