Are cats really that dangerous?
05-08-2008, 01:18 AM
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How can those of us who didn't own a cat before the "no first-timers" rule came into effect buy a cat? The logic of that rule means that when all the long-time cat owners have died or quit cats will be uninsurable (because all owners will then be first-timers).
05-08-2008, 05:37 AM
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Stop by sometime. We'll pop in a couple of my old Needle Nose video tapes and you can watch the Apaches motoring past all the cats in heavy water.
05-08-2008, 06:07 AM
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05-08-2008, 07:08 AM
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Yes, I do. I was at many of those races as well.
Like I said, you can come and watch the tapes. When it was really rough, the big vees were passing cats. Did the cats blow past on the inlet legs of the course- sure.
05-08-2008, 07:28 AM
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What made that performance such a slam dunk was the fact that the Skater was so much smaller than the Apache.
I also remember the great Bobby Idoni, in Lorne Liebel's Apache CAT....running heads up with Billy Martin in an Aluminum CUV vee bottom (one of the best rough water hulls ever) in stormy seas on Lake MIchigan.
While there may still be a debate in some minds, to me the discussion ended regarding cats and rough water in the early 80's.
The only caveat, I have, regards the West Coast cats, which came on the scene in the early to mid 90's and barrel rolled, stuffed, and slogged there way along, and generally put the progress that other cat builders (Cougars, Shadows, Skaters, Jaguar, etc) made back at least 20 years. and while they fill the pages of our major magazines seemingly every month, they are still the same combination of awkward lines, poor forward entry and faulty aero and hydro dynamics that characterized them from day one.
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05-08-2008, 08:22 AM
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Of course I remember Whiplash, and if you were out in that huge water in a 28 foot cat, you prove my point even more.
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05-08-2008, 09:40 AM
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You just have to start small. My first cat was a 18' Mirage Jaguar. Those little boats really make you understand trim, etc. From there HTM, Spectre...
05-08-2008, 09:54 AM
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T2x........ full of sympathy today.
05-08-2008, 10:16 AM
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