Why do I sail cats...

Millions of reasons...

Sailed them since I was 12 (helming) and grew up with the speed.

Went to uni and had to sail monoslugs (good for team racing) but slow and boring for round the cans. What you have been told about cats it partly true, we do not tack on every shift; because of the speed of our boats we have to think about it. I remember sailing at college with some top sailors of today and I asked "do you tack on every shift?" "oh, yes, you cat boys don't do tactics do you..", my reply was "not so sure, we think about tacking, and then tack on those that will make us distance, we have to evaluate the shifts". I actually found the mono sailing less tactical as you just tack on 99.9% of shifts whereas on a cat (that might be doing 15kts up wind and 25+ downwind), you need to think about it first.

You will encounter people who don't like cats, just get out there and enjoy it !