Moth on Foils: 35.9 knots(41.29 mph)

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Moth on Foils!

Moth pioneer John Illet and his company ,Fastacraft, have a new Moth design. Check it out here: https://www.facebook.com/Fastacraft

Heres a picture of a 1/5 scale model of the new boat:

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< due to complaint received, the post regarding Bora and following posts have been removed. Maybe it would be best not do discuss him further here and let him do his thing in peace. The forums here are best to discuss technology, ideas, concepts ... and it's bad when people start to be insulted or offended by what's posted by other people about them - that's not what the forums here are for. >
 
Boat Design Net Moderator said:
< due to complaint received, the post regarding Bora and following posts have been removed. Maybe it would be best not do discuss him further here and let him do his thing in peace. The forums here are best to discuss technology, ideas, concepts ... and it's bad when people start to be insulted or offended by what's posted by other people about them - that's not what the forums here are for. >
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Jeff, you're right. My apologies to all concerned.
 
Hmm...very strange, Doug voices his personal opinion of a person in the news and his comment was redacted.

Why ?


Was BDN threatened ?
 
Moth on Foils!

michael pierzga said:
Hmm...very strange, Doug voices his personal opinion of a person in the news and his comment was redacted.
Why ?
Was BDN threatened ?
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Michael, I think I was wrong to push my personal opinion of anyone on a technical forum. If that was ok, you'd have nothing but that kind of thing and no tech talk. I reported my own post because I was concerned that my personal opinion may have over-ridden my better judgement in terms of what's best for the forum.
 
Ok... and its jeffs call. He has the thankless task of moderator.

Id like to know if he was threatened.
 
michael pierzga said:
Hmm...very strange, Doug voices his personal opinion of a person in the news and his comment was redacted.

Why ?
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Not to diminish the right of everyone to have their opinion, but the focus of this forum is sailboat design; the goal is to maintain an atmosphere where design information is shared, whether it's knowledge about a mainstream sailboat or new concepts and ideas, and when a post generates complaints and offense, the forum is not obligated to host that comment forever. Sometimes a different venue would be more appropriate. When a post starts to sidetrack the forum from working well, a small fraction of a percent of posts may have to be removed so as not to become counterproductive to goal of creating a place for design knowledge to be shared. The primary criteria is: does the post have substantive informational value to sailboat design, or in other forums boat design in general. Secondarily, could the design information be presented in a way that doesn't cause another person offense. The post in question didn't have significant informational value, and with the poster himself having second thoughts, removing it was the thing to do.
 
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