Ooof!
Hey Wet, the point, which you apparently missed, but can glean from reading through the archives, is:
Doug has relentlessly spewed on behalf of all things foily for more than, ... let's just say it has been a long time now. It's his answer, along with any other flavor-of-the-month high tech solution, to what ails the boating industry.
The knock on Doug is simply because he has taken the liberty, at every chance he gets, to blow really hard on his horn of foiling hyperbole. This time, in his eagerness to scream it from the rooftops once again, he has actually eaten the message due to faulty use of yet another high-tech solution and his overeagerness to be the dude who scoops the planet with the news.
I didn't say the instrument mis-use was Doug's fault; just his willingness to act as a dupe for the foiler guys while they flog each other with performance claims. His issues are separate from the GPS gaff. I also gave him credit for getting it out there publicly, such as it was.
If you like, you can call it the anti-hype that keeps things on an even keel, so to speak. Hell, you can call it anything you like.
Could you imagine the response if some huge Naval Architect started shouting, "I've found the key to the future of sailing" And then, less than one week later, he says, meekly.... "Oooooh, my bad... My assistant forgot to carry the one in my calculations. There is no such key. In fact, once you do the math correctly, the result I get is actually worse than where I was last year"
Oh no, wet, nobody's gonna thump Mr. NA for that faux paux. You are, however, free to buy into anything Doug says as many times as he says it. Or, as he un-says it, as the case may be. Do you know the story of the little dude who ran around shouting, "The sky is Falling"?
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