[nativepaul]

For me It more like I've defected from Boats to Planes and Cars, not that I don't still enjoy boats, for me Fast Electric Boats are the best form of RC but I have a road just outside my door for cars and the flying field is closer than the nearest legal Lake so my car gets the most use.

Try a fast boat I'm sure you will love it, there's something about having a course what changes conditions constantly that make running boats more exciting.

I love Cats and would take one over a V any day, I would have to disagree with AAngels generalisation that cats turn better tho, While a wide cat with a fair bit of deadrise will turn a lot better than a deepV mono, a long narrow (scale offshore type) cat with a flat bottom has very little advantage if any in the turns to a meduimV mono with a pair of turn fins, and a submerged drive shallowV mono will turn MUCH better than anything else on the water.

A Cats advantage is that the deck or tunnel between the sponsons provides lift which means your boat weighs less at speed so the wetted area decreases and if set up right it will go faster, In Europe we run Cats in with the Hydros and the speeds are similar to the scale Hydros but not as fast as the best riggers. It may interest you to know that the full size prop driven water speed record is no longer held by an Unlimited Hydro but by a Turbine Cat.

Monos DO have there advantages tho, a deepV mono with a fair bit of freeboard will handle rougher water than a cat, and monos can be made to be self-righting.