I would like to add that despite my sturdy talk above, steering a patin-a-vela isn't so difficult as it seems to be.

Most of you do not realize that this cat has a very small beamsize. Original I believe it was 1.5 m, but I narrowed it even further down to 1.2 m.
That's because I replaced the original wooden beam-planks with two sawn-off old nacra beams (broken at the dolphin striker).
So, the cat was also transportable on a normal luggage trailer


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You can imaging that manoeuvering between swimmers is now simpler.
(the same applies for righting the cat after a flip!).

Finally the very special hull shape makes the cat very sensitive for weight distribution (far more then on a normal cat).

Sitting and sailing is a peace of cake:

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