Besides fellas, you are out on the water SAILING1 for gods sake! Of course you are going to go for a swim now and then, if you didn't, there wouldn't be much point in being out there any way? What next, do we encase all sailors on a water tight "suvival pod" so that we don't even get wet at all? and if we did, we would float away from the "boat" and be picked up by a rescue boat? all the time remaining "dry"? come on now. The difference between cats "pitchpoling" and "falling over sides ways" UNSAFELY" and dingy's being inherently safer, is a load of codswallup and myth! How many cat sailors have seen 9 to 12 year old "kids" out sailing/training in little "bath tubs" that regularly capsize , fill with water and have to be "assisted" by rescue crews? How many times have you seem classes of different dingys racing in heavy weather and the occasional boat being washed up on the shore because the crew could not right it and/or bail out the water? It seems to be a common occurence at all the clubs that I sail at that more rescues are made on dingies than on cats. At least the cats "float" when they ditch (unless punctured by collision) where as most of the dingies "swamp".