All australians run catamarans??

[Arlon]

For some reason it seems US boaters think all Australians use catamarans? Just from this board, that doesn't seem to be the case. I remember a "show your boat" post awhile back that must have had 50 boat pictures and only 1-2 of them where cats. Are Cats really the dominant power in boating that so many here in the US seem to believe? I would think the cat/mono ratio there is a little more than here but not by the margin most seem to think..


From a post on the hull truth..


RJ640 - 5/31/2005 #11:08 AM
How come people in Australia all have cats and no one in the US does - is it the monohull lobby?

[cooky]

From what I know (which isn't that much apart from being observant) recreational boating in Australia would be 90% monohull (over 4.5 to 8metres) trailerable size. There are certainly a few cats out there and they're great boats, but majority by far is monohull.

When you start getting into commercial operations like charter boats, etc the ratios would be less.

[88fishframe]

We're not much different to the US, just smaller scale. Because we are surrounded by water, we probably have a higher commercail fisherman per capita ratio and a lot of the commercial guys use cats. It's probably for that reason you hear a lot about them rather than mono hulls.

:)

[Arlon]

Thanks for the info. I figured that was the case but wanted to be sure I wasn't missing something. Cooky, if I ever make to Australia, can I go fishing with you? Those are the finest looking little tunas I've seen in a while! :o