|   You'd be less likely to see something like that with an HP because there's less hidden structure to inspect or worry about. 

|   If you hit something with a rudder, it kicks up.  If you hit
| something with the hull, you damage the hull, but that can hopefully
| be
| seen in an inspection, /especially/ if you have flat bottoms and no
| false floor.

This is what I was thinking. Vast majority of the boat is near flat and relatively thin. I imagine it would be easy to 1) identify a repair, as it seems hard to feather a patch on a flat surface to invisibility. 2) check said repair for integrity with a tap test or transducer.

|   The daggerboard/case thing is an odd example of risks people accept. Knowing that at some point almost all of us are going to hit something we don't mean to hit, I have a hard time with daggerboards for anything offshore.

Not to mention throwing people around in the boat.