Dude! Your amazing Nort... where do you come up with this stuff...
That's gotta be a Prouty Vid ..

I don't recall it being said not to respect the speeds a cat can run .. where's that coming from?

And V's don't hook and throw everyone out of the boat if turned to sharply?

So this "insurance person" is saying that a cat accident at 80 mph will have 3 times the damage than a vee accident at 80 mph? Unless the cat is made in some God awful place like California....that's horsefeathers. But it does raise a good point...There have been some terrible Cat designs that bow steer, or are tragically overpowered...or both....made in the land of fruits and nuts that might be the cause of a lot of this insurance issue. I wonder, if you broke down these accidents by manufacturer and length, would the data make more sense?

T2x

When you say cats can handle the rough stuff and I am talking above 3-4 footers, what length boat are you talking about? I have run with 36' and smaller cats and they tend to run slow in the rougher water and then blow by us in the calm. I have seen the 39' and above run very well in rough water. Would that be about the right size for a true rough water cat? What brands tend to run better in the rough? Different V hulls have better rough water characteristics based on brand. Cigs and Apaches seem to be the brand of choice for V's. My Fountain handles all that I am comfortable throwing at it. Seems to me size matters in V's or Cats when you talk about rough water.

Nice Delson Like a bird in flight

I had a fuse blow at 110 when I first got the Skater, thus killing the power to that side. It just settled down and came off plane. Here's me and Bruce Bullock trying to figure out which fuse it was.

as mentioned i've run a 28 skater in 10' conditions. was it fun ? Not so much. a 36-40 cat (skater mti doug wright etc.) can run just about any conditions much depends on the skill of the driver/ throttleman as far as comfort goes

A 30' Shadow/ Chris Cat would run with a 36' Cigarette in any conditions that were legal to race in, and I would imagine that a high deck 30 or 32 foot Skater would do the same. A 40' naturally aspirated, Skater got the best of a 46' triple supercharged engined, Apache in the Ocean city race mentioned earlier. ( a race in which the Coast Guard almost closed the inlet because it was so rough)

So yes size does matter...in reverse...but , of course neither of these cat designs were from the Left Coast.

T2x

I've had a Chris Cat and agree with Rich about them; the Jag is even better in the rough. But, I'm not knocking Skaters: they are fantastic!

Due