For me it was largely being able to set up my own shroud lengths easily and simply without having to constantly go to a chandler to adjust the stays, cost and weight was not really the issue, as an aside I lost nearly 3 kilos ( including the adjusters ) and had nice soft stays which didn't damage sails nor hands.

It would be interesting to go back to wire for a while and probably see what others are confirming that the D12 is just too elastic or perhaps not. Coming from a gliding background where there was some argument whether stiff platforms were better than flexiable ( basically the flexiable platforms took out all the shock and jolting allowing the pilot to thermal better vs the flexiable wings didn't allow the wing to perform as it should ). I guess trial and error maybe the answer. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />