I prefer the vinyl, even though I have a mesh on my 16. Only problem with getting a new vinyl one is that they only come in white. My 14 has a new white vinyl tramp and you almost want to sail with welding goggles on a bright sunny day.

Lots of people talk about the windage from a solid vs. a mesh. One of these days I'm going to take out the leaf blower and see how much wind actually goes through the mesh one. Mythbusters: Cat style. I'll need a anometer, aminominoter, anomometer...... wind speed measuring thingy. measure it out in the open, then measure it going through the tramp at varying distances. I'm sure there is less resistance, obviously there has to be, but is it enough to be that much of a difference that it would actually be a case of: boy, I mesh tramp would've saved me there!? <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />