Yeah, being able to sail in extreme conditions is great but those are rare. Look at average conditions.... winds of 7-15. Not many windsurfers out in that because it isn't fun but cats are everywhere.

In reality you can sail a beach cat up to winds of 35mph without having to do anything special. I don't even have to change sails between winds of 10 and 35 when the windsurfers will have gone through 2.

Also what can you do on a wind surfing board, jump a few times, then get tired and go in. On a cat you can pack a lunch,take out the g/f, fly a hull all the way to the beach have a nice meal and then go blast around some more. Can you take anyone out with you on the board?

I am not saying that boards are not badass and I know that they could smoke me speed whys....but they can't do alot of stuff that cats can.