OK, here's another thought, take a look at the tramps on the AC or VX 40 cats. They use what looks like a big fishing net, about 3" square, open weave type tramp, vs. what we use on our beach cats, a much tighter weave.

Why? Does nobody make a huge roll of our tight weave? Or, is there 'less drag' with the open weave, where the wind can blow right through the entire tramp?

And why are no beach cats using it? I was seriously thinking about trying to buy a square of that 3" open weave stuff for my Prindle replacement, or something like they use for bow nets on a Corsair, or what they use on the bows of the big cruising cats, it would be very cool for my kids to just look straight down on the water rushing by. Like this: http://multihullnets.com/product/opendk.htm

Yeah, it might hurt your butt more to sit on it, but hey, just sit on the hull and there won't be a problem.