| It is hard to say: assuming all other things being equal. Obviously the hp can have most of its total weight in ww hull, whereas cat has to keep it 50/50.
|So the argument can't really begin on an even keel.

Doug makes a good point. Perhaps i missed something too, but it looks like you made the HP a cat, to make it fair.

Also, and this might be a language thing, but we don't want fair. We want accurate, don't we?

Not that the thought experiment was not great. Thanks for it, and I am still chewing on it. Neat to see a physical representation of the vectors.

Rob, a few posts ago, said cats use weight, and hps use width, which is lighter and cheaper. I think it's fair to object to normalizing weight and width.

Perhaps add a third boat. A typical, non normalized HP? Still constrained by the same weight/cost?

To visualize the more realistic comparison?