I am sure that this has been discussed to death but this has a small twist, pardon the pun!

I bought an '85 H16 last fall and got to sail a couple times before the snow fell; one thing I noticed is that there was alot of relative hull movement when experiencing high waves. Upon further research, I determined that this is a common problem or occurence with older H16's. I found a docuemnt by Gary Willcox from the "On the Wire" magazine that details the disassembly and gluing of the tramp frame to eliminate the flex. In the article, he tells us to lift one hull, while resting on the trailer, and see how high it can be lifted before the second hull starts to move; however, he does not state what degree of this movement justfies the effort to glue the frame. That is, what is an acceptable value for a H16?

Tramp Frame Flex: where is the movement occuring? Is it between the cross braces in the corner castings or is it the actual corner castings that are moving around the hull pylons? Here's what I am really getting at: I am pretty sure that I will need to glue my frame, and what I really want to do is to only glue the four aluminum rails of the frame to the corner castings but I don't want to glue the corner castings to the pylons.

Any comments here would be appreciated.

Tim