It's quite rare to see a fractional mast break above the hounds - in fact these days breakages are far rairer than a few decades ago in racing...
Your extravagant praise of your own posts is weird.
More sheet tension only means more camber and less twist if you don't know how to use the vang and traveller properly. The fact that you seem to...
The only reason you may find communication impossible is because you are so ignorant. Many, many sailmakers have been using full battened mains...
Wrong yet again. You seem to be unable to write a sentence without showing your utter ignorance.
Wrong again. In the 1950s and even well into the 1980s, the stretch qualities of sailcloth and the SA/D limits meant that it was impossible to...
All of this is all very well known, accepted and used by the very same designers you repeatedly insult and abuse. The high performance monos who...
Yes, in some ways it's similar to the Folkboat rig but no, the NS14 isn't a one design and never has been. It's a development class. There's...
You are making stuff up again. That style of rig works beautifully on a 2-5 ton boat, and even on much bigger boats. It does NOT have to cost...
Isn't it fairly well accepted that, as noted here by Tom Speer and others, that the main and jib are effectively the same entity when considering...
Wow, I somehow missed that. These guys are planning to build possibly the most powerful tri ever built with no experience and a belief that a...
That's all cool, but if you have a very unusual hull design and ignore the ancient wisdom on rig design then how will you isolate what factor...
Milidragovic is yet another example of a guy who came on with an old idea, lied and abused people who actually created rigs that work, and ran...
That's the rig many of us have been using since the 1980s. The fact that you apparently consider it novel shows how little you know, and therefore...
Do you already have boom vangs, travellers, guardrails, clutches, gooseneck, rudder bearings, jib tracks, windows, propeller strut, cushions and...
"Oceanic ignorance of modern sailboat designers"? Yet another lie. Many post 1970 designers, from Ron Holland and Doug Peterson to Andy Dovell,...
Thinking by yourself is fine in many ways, but it can also lead you to waste a lot of effort. After all, the chances of you coming up with an...
You are an arrogant liar. Yacht club do NOT "try to bleach naval design". Even clubs like St Francis promote kiting, wingfoiling and skiffs. You...
Incorrect. There is no such inertia. Many of us are very experienced and very aware of the use of staysails at various angles so there is NO...
So much slower than a sloop that the Americans didn't race the two together, and the Europeans gave the schooner a rating reduction of about 20%...
