I had a KittyCat when I was a youngster, my first catamaran, 27 years ago. After sailing Mirrors and Flying 11's it was very fast but fragile. Required a rebuild after everysail. We called it the "boatpark special", looked great in the rigging area, but self distructed on the race course. Thinking back on it though we were rather hard on it, being kids, and some of our repairs were very agricultural.
The hulls had lots of bouyancy being wide and blunt, it was heavy, the one I had was anyway, the genoa was huge and the asymetric had a wire luff, single centreboard too, solid deck. I put twin trapeze wires on it probably contributing to the self destruction.
Funny to realise I was sailing a cat with a spinnaker when I was a kid, moved onto skiffs after that boat, I never have understood the great devide between mono's and cats, maybe thats why.
Darryn,
Mosquito 1704 (spinnakerless)