Hi all,

is scratching of blades a big problem, many cats in OZ use to use dagger type boxes, but I thought one of the reasons they stopped was scratching of blades. As far as kick up is concerned this is easily fixed as Darryl Barrett suggests.

Many cats I have seen have deeper rudders than centreboards, I know on the mossie I have hit rudders on bottom without hitting centreboards. Mind you kick up rudders are not of upmost importance, I sailed a Contender dinghy with a 3' deep fixed rudder for years and survived, mind you a cat is harder to steer to deep water without the rudder than a dinghy.

Regards Gary.