How cheap are cat sailors???

Damn cheap and its killing the sport (racing) and interest in cat sailing!

Everyone recognizes that as a sport and as a boating activity, catsailing is at best holding its own. I suggest that folks look at how their choices with respect to where and how they go sailing impact on the sport as a whole.

The majority of responses were from sailors who keep their boats on essentially undeveloped property with zero and I mean zero amenities ( a port a pot is a big deal)
IMHO, this "rustic" enviorment is not and will never be attractive to new sailors or families who might get a cat and start sailing her.... (racing is way down the road for these newbies). It is just too harsh a place to be with family and invited friends.

A second large group of racers trailer from their back yards and establish a club at public parks for one weekend a month (Hobie regattas). Again the facilities available are rudimentary and a new sailor must trailer the rig AND get help from the spouse to raise the stick.. Most importantly.... a new sailor or interested sailor would have an impossible time finding this club. Finally, its asking an awful lot of a new sailor to go racing.

If trailering out of your back yard to public parks or roughing it on undeveloped property were such a great way of getting folks interested in sailing ... How come the monohull and dinhy sailors are not following our lead???

Establishing comfortable facilites for sailing and racing cats costs money and I believe that we should recognize that we have to step up to the plate and build these facilites and clubs.

Take Care
Mark