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Originally Posted by sailingdog
I'd point out that most of the cats that are 40'+ with a rig less than 65' air draft are undercanvassed, charter trade, motorsailers with really poor sailing performance.
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If you're talking about an older couple looking to go from sail to a terminal trawler, I suspect having an undercanvassed cat probably would not be deterent. Also, our charter a few weeks ago was on a Leopard 40, and that rig has less than 65' air draft, and she seemed to sail OK to me, particularly considering that the sails were well-exercised and I'm not an experienced cat sailor so I surely didn't get the most out of it. Obviously I wasn't racing her or counting tenths of knots (not even close), but that's how most older cruising couples probably sail anyway.