Hi Nicholas:

Good luck with your Magnum! it's one terrific beach boat that can take a lot of abuse. I would try to limit the amount of dragging on the bottoms, though, because doing a bottom job should probably be done at the end of a year, but you really don't want to start seeing it wear through the fiberglass meshing.

If you leave the boat laying on the beach, I woud cover the tramp with a tarp.

The advice about the downhaul and mainsheet is correct in higher winds; you let the traveler out to depower the sail. I use a square top that I had built at Calvert for anything under 9 knots.

Any thoughts to buying a set of cat trax?

Wyatt