What I really appreciate in my Tiki 26 is the ability to venture into places where if you went in a different boat it would make you nervous. Yes you give up certain things, like comfort in bad weather and convenience - flexispace means you need to shift equipment around to get to the things at the end of the hulls or underneath but the shallow draft and raft-like platform let you venture onto the tide flats or into a tiny estuary. Floating just above the eel grass lets you observe the goings on in the marine biosphere. If your presence remains calm, you may be visited by a family of sea otters, who at first wary of you accept your presence and then go about their early morning excursions looking for food.