How in the heck to 5.2 pilots sail their boats with the jib wires above the tramp I will never understand. The first thing I did with mine was rip those things off and re-rivet the support wires on the x-bars under the tramp.

My tramp now has to slots on each side so that I can slide the jib block back and foreward about 14 inches but keep the wire under the deck.

I also kept my center bar because I like it. I always thought it looked painful coming from the Hobie camp, but I love it. It adds a lot of stability to the boat in bad weather.

A few things I did to mine that really helped:

1. Got rid of the shock cord rudder system and installed Pivomatics and a static rudder pull-up line for each rudder.

2. Put the jib wires under the deck and had the tramp re-sewn to accomadate it.

3. Put the Hobie 20 rudder connection kit on the tiller bar.

4. Harken Black Magic 8:1 mainsheet system.

5. Carpeted the daggerboard slots (no need for bungie on the boards.