| My actual preference is the telescoping pieces on top/below each other so they are less likely to jam, are much easier to make and can be checked.

Do you have a sketch, pic, or something that illustrates this? Just roughly..

| About as pretty as side mounted rudders!

Didn't Steinar have a aerodynamic cover for the beams?

| If looks are important,

Rob, we are building a HP. lol

| then make the beams as a U with a top on it. Before attaching the top of the lee beams, put the bearings and lines in and make sure it all runs smoothly.

But, don't we need to get back in there to inspect and maintain it?

| Hinges are fine,

I don't know. I mean they are, but even if we can debate until we get a consensus top contender folding system or two, then we start making that system work, which likely will have a very different set of downstream fixes/solutions than some other folding solution that didn't win the first debate.

It's kind of a complicated domain, with no clear way forward. It feels to me like, at some point, we need to pick a solution and go with it, and expect to see a better one in hindsight.

| Rotating the hulls means everything not tied down of removed falls on the floor. It also means the mast angles outward and could be collected by a boat passing by.

I guess you dont like the floating mast install? Ya, its silly.
I imagined folding and unfolding just at the ramp.
But if folding at the marina is important, then lets plan for that.

| All beam reduction methods need attention paid to the bridge deck.

Again, with all the bravery of ignorance, I'll share ideas.

So, there is a tender and the toy box and the hard deck, and the bench seat, with possible storage box under the seat. And the winches and the rudder controls/wheel (whipstaff). If tiller, than easy?

So lets just assume tillers?

Can the toy box and winches be removable and also still hold the anchor well when anchored?

Any ideas?

How about when collapsed can the bench seat slide over the lee hull? That eliminates the storage under them I guess.

Or just make the benches removable as boxes, to keep the storage? Assuming they are not a structural part of the lee cabin wall .