why would the platform not be worth much? The guy that built it knows what he's doing. He's been building tornados since he was in college, working on an f18 design and is currently designing/building a 36 foot trimaran. He's sailed it for two years now, and is confident that its a solid structure. He's done a lot of work engineering the thing from adding kevlar for impact resistance to making the carbon beams stout enough to eliminate the dolphin striker. He's eliminated weight aloft on the CF mast, using kevlar for the spreaders. Dimensionally, its identical to his marstrom sitting next to it, and sails the exact same. Just because it can't race in tornado class events does not mean that its not worth anything IMHO.