A guy named Stuart Walker has written several great books on tacticks and strategy, he says, "cross them when you can, tack to leeward and ahead when you can't." so as to be in good possition for the next shift. Dr. Walker races Solings (monohulls) but usually in a very tough crowd. His books are very good, but nothing about cats in there. That is the only thing I miss about racing mono's, the close in tactical situations.

Of course some of his stuff works much better when all the boats are the same and only going 5 knots! With the speed of cats, the tactics are much harder to work out, one cat could be going 5, another 7, another 9 knots, depending on where they are on the course! Puffs matter and change everything in seconds, which is why I try to avoid laylines alltogether.