The PR nightmare for cats with the AC is this: To the general public, and typical AC fans, cats only come into play when the whole event is in trouble (DoG matches). Cats then get a guilty-by-association view and whenever the general sailing media refers to the ACs with cats, they are always seen as inferior events and a black eye on the history of the AC. I've already seen a bunch of articles in which the author and/or quoted "experts" are saying that they just want to get past this chapter and get the AC back to the event it should be (monohulls)...

Mike