Before I crossed over to the dark side, I spent many a long, boaring day "racing" by hanging over the life lines of a J35, smashing through waves, tasting most of them, as a foredeck monkey/rail meat. I finally realized that only two people of the 8 on board were actually doing any "Sailing", the owner (helmsman) and the sail trimmer. The rest of us were only there to do the work. Free beer and a free educaion were my only incentive to give up a Saturday in summer. As soon as I could afford my own boat I was off the tub, but I did learn a few things for free.

Years later, I was racing a two person dinghy in 20 knots of wind, straight legg hiking all day, back was killing me, when I spotted two Tornados ripping across the bay. When the racing was over I found one of the T crews and they were not in pain, like I was. They talked me into crossing over and I've never regretted it.

To any Mono guys I would say, "Have you ever TRIED racing a multihull??" I have done both and I prefer multihulls. If he has tried both and prefers monos, so be it. But if he has never even raced a multihull in good wind, he really has no credible argument against them.

And the fact that you can go three times as fast with half the crew is a pretty good reason to race multihulls as well, especially if you are buying their beer!