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Yep.  Fiberglass becomes all one thing.  A wooden boat, however well made, is still a whole lot of small things held tightly together.  And sometimes not very tightly.  And apparently it's delicious.

It's amazing.  And building boats in wood leads to the most beautiful shapes imaginable.  It's like how trout fishing necessarily takes you to the most beautiful places in the world.  Serendipity.  But this isn't good enough for a lot of people.  Smith wants to beat Jones and money is no object...

Yes you're right - strike the topmasts down on deck.  I wonder how much of this was tradition and standing orders, how much was hard learned experience, and how much was fear of the fidded mast junctions that could twist and splinter across the grain.  

The "argument" in so much of this stems from that period where boats transitioned from wood construction (with it's form defining limitations) to fiberglass (which freed designers up amazingly and liberated the underbody from basically any restrictions).  It's a spaghetti junction where...

Well I guess, in theory, but I've never known this to be a storm tactic.

I own it and love it.  I don't care anything about, and generally loathe, modern boats so it's right up my alley.  For me one of the most interesting takeaways was that a heavier rig was much more stable and less likely to be knocked down than a light one, all other things being equal.  So if...