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Comment by kim whitmyre on April 20, 2011 at 7:48pm

The double mainsheets make it easy to flatten the mainsail  at any angle .

Comment by laurent on September 2, 2013 at 2:41pm

Hello kim,

 You have alu aft beam, Boatsmith have alu fw beam on his tiki 8m, why not alu aft and fw beams ? Wooden one are so heavy and both central beams are  strong enough ?

Comment by kim whitmyre on September 3, 2013 at 10:10am

In my case, the aluminum aft beam was installed with the future netting in mind, and as a place to hang the boarding ladder. Having a 6mm wall, it is certainly strong enough, and likely does stiffen the sterns a bit. An aluminum forward beam, as in actually replacing the Wharram wooden beam, would have to be well-thought out. The bows, in meeting the waves first while going to weather, likely are subject to higher loads, and the lashing of the wooden beam to the hulls provides a bit of flex: a good thing! If that flex could be engineered into the aluminum beam mounts , so the bows aren't constrained on the vertical axis...

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