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As if my whole life up to that time had somehow been safe and now I would ruin all that because, you know, catamarans flip over.
Well, that’s true. If you do things wrong they flip over and there you are. But on the upside, they don’t sink, as do keeled boats, because they do not have ballast and the hulls are made of foam that floats. If they flip you wind up with an enormous, really stable life raft, so in the end it’s still all a compromise and you give on one side to gain on the other.
This passage strikes me because he doesn’t care what the other sailors say about the catamarans. He doesn’t care about taking one more risk. He looks at the positive side of the catamarans. It doesn’t matter if the catamaran flips, you will still have something to float on. He loves the adventure and the risk that comes with it. He has to ride the catamaran.
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