Origami steel yacht construction

[welder/fitter]

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, as they say. Just as there are, both, attractive & goofy looking hard chine sailboats, so it is with the "origami" boats, or any other hull shapes it seems, and what turns one on turns another off. I wouldn't be surprised if several designers were originally inspired by Brent's boats. The key difference is that they will have done the necessary work to ensure that, in each case, the end product is safe & performs to it's optimum capabilities.

If someone wants to design their own boat, solely for their own use, yet, are not formally trained to do so, I say, "So what? Go for it. If you kill yourself, tough luck." It's when that same person sells that boat to another or encourages others to build a similar boat that I see a serious issue.

[Jeff]

<Mod note: thread closed. Since there have been no answers to the same questions repeated several times in the last ten+ pages, this seems a reasonable point to bring this thread to a close so it doesn't start to go around in the same circle once again. A few hostile remarks / personal attacks have been removed.>