Bill,

I'm not sure what's more impressive, the carbon diamond wire adjuster or the fact that the mast builder signed his work! MMMmmmm...that's perty.

SB,

Skiffs are exciting, but they're slower than cats. Our spinnaker cat apparent wind is more direct than theirs and we still rotate to 90 degrees downwind. Mast rotation is incredibly important in all catamarans (especially in A's) to be faster. It gives incredible control over sail shape and I don't understand why so few mono/dingy/skiffs have explored the idea. I think the rotating mast is terribly simple performance gainer that the monohullers have continued to ignore for some reason. Oh wait...it is heavier aloft and when you have very little righting moment, the gains for adding the weight up high are small - maybe that's it?