All sailboats are fun. Some monos are very exciting and some are just poetry to sail. I still love the odd sail in a mono. But it is a simple thing that we catriders are speed freaks and that cats also have that big lazy tramp for the summer daze.
It is interesting that the mono guys get so rabid..
Here I am always ready to get off my cat and face someone mono-a-mono. But they never go the other way with the exception of a great Swiss buddy and fanatical mono sailor. We spent a week sailing this summer when he visited and he loved the Hydra and sailed it very well.
I have always found that in under ten knots of breeze tactics are very important in cats. I often tack more than other sailors and often do well for that as I think the "don't tack" mantra is opften wrong. I match race often in my Hydra against another Hydra. They are a well behaved boat and tack on a dime. Classic match race tactics work very well with that boat.