I like the tramp, I widened the boat to 8'6" so the tramp is a little skinny on the sides, it seems fine, I might add a piece at the back to fill that open area.

I have a kickup set up that is really just two lines and two clam cleats, one of them is an auto release. The red line holds the rudder up, the amsteel line goes though the casting and into the rudder by the bottom pintle and holds it down. I spliced a cover on the amsteel so it would cleat better and that goes in the auto release clam cleat.

It works well and is pretty easy to setup. I had this setup on my first HT and it worked great. I'll take more pictures and post them.