Thanks for the added tips guys - the info. was helpful - we ended up going with 7 on the Saturday and 6 on Sunday as one crew couldn't make it out. We discovered very quickly that 7 is a nice number and with 6 we missed the extra body.

We side launched from the rail and did take downs through the front hatch as some of you suggested -this seemed to work well. We definitely need to add some twings/tweekers though. At least we got the well stocked part part figured out