I've bruised, banged, cut and scraped just about every other part of my body while racing my cat, but the only time I've bashed my skull was when I was pushing the beach wheels up under it on shore and ran my head into the dolphin striker! I bled for a week! I doubt if I'd had a helmet, it would have been on me, on the beach pushing my cat wheels under the boat.

Put me down for no on the helmets on beach cats, at least until I can afford something a lot faster, like a foiling Phantom or an AC 72.

If you want a light weight helmet that won't make your head too hot, look at hockey helmets.

http://www.totalhockey.com/product/IMS_7.0_CUSTOM_Helmet/itm/13637-2/?mtx_id=0