Bill, you should hold your HT Reunion at Tradewinds, Key Largo, mid January. That is where Randy and WF first introduced the Jav 2 many years ago, so it would be a "full circle" moment.

One question about tramps...I notice when I'm sailing upwind in good breeze on one hull, my tramp is bowing upward as the wind is getting under it, is that "a good thing" ie, is that providing some upward lift on the low hull, ala curved dagger boards, or is that just drag and hurting my righting moment?

Is that why a lot of the A cats have gone to the lace up tramps, with large open slots on each side? Are they designed to allow that wind under the tramp to escape and not lift up the high hull?