Quote Originally Posted by Tony G
Do the Ariel/Commanders share the same extrusion with the Tritons? I know Tim wrote that he had watched his boom bend. I just figured that the Tritons weigh more and have more sail area leading to more stress.
I don't know about that. If the boom pictured in the shot with the strop is a standard Ariel/Commander boom, then no, they aren't the same extrusion.

As far as breaking his boom... no, I don't think it would break. But it wasn't transfering the shaping force of the vang very efficiently to the sail either!