Ok...I'm still in the stiff is better camp and I have done the epoxy bedding thing with my beam to hull connections. However I'm not dismissing the flexable idea altogether. It makes sense to me that in some condidtions a platform that flexes will allow each individual hull to respond more freely to the waves it experiences. A stiff platform forces a compromise response to the wave state each hull encounters. I can see this working on a Wave which is more likley to ride over the waves than punch through them. Just a thought, I could be all wrong. (BTW this is not an attempt to explain Kathy's victory. I know why she won, she is a damn good sailor).