Its not just women that play the "scared" card... on a demo sail I took out a guy that had supposedly been sailing cats for a few years. About half way through the ride he played the card. For whatever reason he became terribly concerned. When we got back to the beach he walked off shaking??? I asked him what was bothering him and he had no answer. It was blowing about 15mph tops so it wasn't the conditions nor were we flying alot either. So some people do have real problems with catsailing I guess.



On the other hand I have seen people that just don't want to be there [catsailing, sailing, being on the water, etc] going to please someone else. This can result in disaster/ divorce/ etc... So be very certain before some potential crew really wants to do the wildthing before you find out the hard way.



I have known several married couples that sail on different boats because they don't like taking orders from the spouse!



thom