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[quote=Cybertech]I have now had a quick look at it and there seem to be a few things missing and it all looks a bit confused.

I telescoped the hulls and the beams do not seem to be fixed.  The mast does indeed rotate with the front beam.  The beams slide in to a glassed in tube and there appears to be a mounting-pin hole on the top of the fixed tube near the outside edge, on the top.  Unfortunately if you pin the front beam the mast is horizontal!  Maybe that is just a transport hole for use on the trailer?  The rear beam, which the main-sheet mounting fixed centrally, has no fixings at all and just sits in the glassed in fixed tube.  This, effectively makes the tramp a structural component and all that is holding the 2 hulls together when sailing!  Is this right?

It has a 7 metre, 2 part "Jack Holt" Mast with a fixed track and 3 mounting tags about 2.5 metres up from the base.  The boom is just a "push-on" tube with a couple of mounting tags below.  Presumably they hold the main-sheet and the one at the front perhaps some form of down-haul/boom-vang? Doesn't appear to be any mounting.  There is also no out-haul so I am presuming the sail is loose-footed, battened and perhaps takes the mainsheet directly with the boom just holding shape?
Too wet to get the sail out in the garden so that will be the next stage.

There are a pair of rear-stays that fit to the mast tabs and mount just forward of centre on the hulls and also there is a mount on the tip of each hull, presumably this will need a split stay that runs into a single, with bottle screw adjustment, that then runs to the 3rd front tab on the mast.  Got a bit of nylon rope and a pully doing that job, just for now!

Thanks for all the help.

[quote=DanBerger]That has to be the weirdest looking cat I've ever seen--it should be pretty fast down wind!

I see it has a tramp on it, but does it (can it) open up with telescoping beams?  It looks like the mast base actually rotates on the front beam?[/quote]
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