Great bunch of threads.  I have got a bit behind (working on the Marshall's project and the 24m cargo ferry prototype), so apologies for the messy answers in the following replies.  If I have missed anything, please let me know.

Honestly, that's very sexy. Closed, light, and very simple.

Does this even need internal lines? Can they not all just be external? Address's the maintenance. Show off how stupid simple it is?

(Side note, no reason I could not build for my E25, to test?)

Perhaps UHMWPE as bearing surfaces?

Can 2 almost 12' beams that go almost to the outside of each hull get us to ~22’? If I did the maths right.

Can those beams get good strong bury to each hull and still let the other beam slide in that deep?

Perhaps need a 3rd beam to get the width to 25'+?

Lowest beam to windward, and highest to lee?

Perhaps if we get the beam lengths dialed in, we can get a final length, then we can start seeing how the parts rack and stack?

| Complicated indeed, but the pros and cons of each are pretty clear.
| As are the compromises that need to be made.

Are there any we have not addressed? Or not addressed enough?

The telescoping seems able to get good structural bury and great extension very simply and lightly.

Mike, et. al. Any thoughts?

| > So lets just assume tillers?
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| Definitely. And with telescoping extensions.

Mike said this was preferred anyway, IIRC.

| > Can the toy box and winches be removable and also still hold the anchor well when anchored?
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| Yes.
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| > Any ideas?
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| Several, but they are all compromises. Need to decide what is important...
| If you are opening and closing the boat either side of a 2 hour sail after work, the requirements are different to taking it apart to take it home once a season.

Tell me more.

A third target is the cruiser who wants a mono slip, perhaps? Call that guy Arto?

So, if Mike is a once a season guy, Arto is a cruiser, and I am the 2 hour guy. How does optimizing for me tick the other two off?

| > How about when collapsed can the bench seat slide over the lee hull? That eliminates the storage under them I guess.
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| Yes and yes
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| > Or just make the benches removable as boxes, to keep the storage? Assuming they are not a structural part of the lee cabin wall.
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| They aren't, but they have to be put somewhere, as does the tender and anything else removed.

Trailering, perhaps the bench boxes and toy box may stack under, fore, and aft of the boat. Put the T40?? On its side impaled on its lifts by the gin poles or mast stubs?

How high is the lee hull?

Add the T40 width and 33" for the trailer. Are we under 14'?

If you are in a slip and you got a T40?? where do you put it? Can you just tie it behind your boat? Will it fit under? Swamp it, and slide it under in the slip? Same with the boxes?

Will the boxes float under the boat? Perhaps not the toybox.

I hope I didn't embarrass myself too much.