I suppose I should explain something. Popeye started this thread by using a quote from me that I posted on another thread in one of the other forums. It was never meant to stand alone and out of context.

In answer to Popeye's original question: Yes, it was partly tongue-in-cheek, but I said it for a serious reason. That particular thread was about how to right cats, but the tone of some of the posters made it sound like capsize and/or pitchpole are routine and normal (and frequent) if you want to sail a catamaran.

This is not a good image to present to people who might be reading these forums and thinking about getting catamarans. So I thought I should mention that capsizing and pitchpoling are not a "necessary" feature of catamarans.

It has to be confusing to people when we tell them on the one hand that catamarans are much more stable than monohulls and on the other hand tell them that they have to accept that their catamaran is going to be capsizing and/or pitchpoling frequently.

ANY boat, monohull or multihull, will capsize or swamp in certain weather conditions. If a multihull is sailed conservatively and if sail is reduced appropriately for the weather conditions, it certainly should survive better than a monohull.