Fellas,

I know the Cat will make better time upwind than a monohull - regardless of specific pointing ability. But the mono-sailors I know seem understand their own pointing abilities (numbers) pretty well and have it down to the number of degrees.

Most sailors know/accept that monos generally out-point cats. So, when some mono guy says to me his boat points 110 degrees through the wind and I reply with the "advertised" 90 degrees through the wind for my H16, I do not sound credible.

Besides that, on my last sail of the season I took a compass with me to get some accurate numbers on this. But, since the winds were a bit strong that day, and I was sailing solo, accurate readings were not possible - though I am sure I could not point 45 to the wind. It seemed more like 60 degrees (120 through the wind) - maybe even more.


Dave