Just a summary :


"The Bleeding edge !"

"When we first sailed our Bimare Javelin 2 USA-45, my 11 year old son and crew, Nick, immediately started lobbying for carbon beams. “Those aluminum beams look so old fashioned Dad."

"I figured we might as well try to get the BIM properly sorted out."

"WF figures our platform is 8 lbs over minimum"

"Fed up with our leaky platform, and the racking of the hulls (independent motion of the two hulls), we began looking for a way to make the platform better, and lighter"

"Finally, we want to rid the platform of the bronco character when pressing downwind in waves. The aft beam is simply too low for the platform"

"And the beam of the BIM looked slightly under max."

Our hulls were pretty scratched up when we got our boat, and the protruding seam can only add to drag"

"The gelcoat looks THICK, so we’re grinding away the seam, scratches and gelcoat"

"Both of rudder heads show voids in the aluminum castings, so still looking at what to do."

"The mast is a beast. We can barely right the boat"

"I asked Ben Hall if he’d make a new lighter mast for us, and he basically said he wouldn’t"

"We also went to a fatter spin halyard that does not absorb water for better grip while hoisting, and lighter weight."

"The Cunningham will get a total re-think in the coming months. The diamonds have been replaced with Dyform wire which stretches a lot less."

"The standard Petrucci main looks pretty good, but not constructed for any sort of long term abuse"

"The weight of the tube/sprit is about 6 lbs, which is what the old alum sprit weighed. And it’s at the maximum length…..about 11” longer than the standard aluminum sprit."

"Goran Marstrom was right. This class has picked too high of a minimum weight. The hulls, beams, trampolines weigh 193 lbs!!!!! "

"REGARDLESS, we’re really enjoying the boat."


Hummmmm, is this "a killer review" or just "a killing review"