Wouter, relax!

The Marstrom A-cat has bolted beams today and we where having a discussion with Marstrom what we could do to reduce the price on the a-cat. He said that removing the bolted beam and going for glued beams instead would be a significant price and weight reduction. The increased stiffness would be hard to measure since the current design for the bolts is really good, and expensive....

So for the current Marstrom platform it would reduce the price! By putting a ban on glued beams you could make some designs more expensive!

Reducing beam was not really serious, but it is only 8% beam reduction I was talking about... You would only sacrifice some upwind speed, downwind speed would NOT suffer. But the boat would still be messy to fit into a container....

The F18 guys are actually arguing about the beam of 2.6 meters. You need tilt trailer or knocking the boat apart each time you trailer it or you may run into to trouble. Ok must sailors don't care about the extra width and trailer it anyway, but why having 0.1 meters extra that makes it so difficult.

/håkan