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Rather than provide a reasoned defence, you leap to personal insults and multiple open threats. I will never post here again, ever, using this persona or any other. If there was a way to remove my account, I would, but your forum doesn't allow that. Yes, I'm well aware that deleting my account...

Which might be why I said "Considering your own poor grammar". The payment here being information about the event, the threat being you'll tell your version of events regardless. Your participation in a forum discussing the event and voicing strong personal views about the parties involved...

Blackmail is an entirely appropriate word to use. If you believe there is a term that better describes your behaviour (bullying, standover tactics, whatever) then please enlighten us all. When criticising someone's English expression, it helps greatly if your own language is above reproach: "…...

I don't blame him. Here you are joining in a vitriolic discussion with strong, one sided opinions while admitting you don't have the full story. You're trying to blackmail them into talking: "tell me what happened or I'll keep spruiking my ill–informed, slanderous crap". Go for it, it drives...

Most single hander sailors like to have someone around to deal with the trolley, be it another sailor or helpful bystander. Current foilers are probably one of a very few that can be launched nearly anywhere single handedly and outside assistance is often more hindrance than help. I expect no...

Cool, that means the beam can be thinner if you want, easy to plug new numbers into a spread sheet. But it doesn't prove anything, just changes the calculations a bit. The design challenge here is how you're going to move it in a sliding, swivelling, sealed tube that protrudes 2 to 3m and...

I'm actually quite intrigued. His apparently 15 year old design1 uses a pulley system so that as the rails slide, the weight moves at about twice the speed. But it depends on the pulley system having a fixed point to tie off to (in the middle of the boat). I'm really puzzled how that can be...

I try to resist, really I do, but the entertainment value is priceless. It doesn't matter if a DL thread goes to shit, everyone expects that, it's when he ruins an otherwise perfectly sensible thread that matters. I'm still trying to work out how the weight moves inside a sealed tube when the...

I think the bolt rope main will be a great advantage over a pocket luff for pre and post–launch handling. Moths really don't like sitting upright in the trolley with the sail up. I imagine the Waszp will be sailed close to the beach, main foil raised a bit, then the sail dropped and the foils...

Ballasted boats for disabled sailors that don't capsize already exist, without the complexity of this system. If speed thrills are the aim, then existing multi–hull boats do that in spades. How does this boat come alongside a pontoon or jetty so disabled sailors can get aboard? At least with...

See #265. Seems Amac as (re)discovered the 80/20 rule. ;-)

Idiot, you have no idea what you're looking at. That was clearly a test of the incredible stability provided by the magic of movable ballast to prove that such craft can't possibly fully invert. Next you'll post images of boats whose keel has fallen off, but the joke's on you because you're so...

I don't understand this statement. Who is "arbitraging the gear"? ISAF? Sailors? Arbitraging is buying in one market and selling in another with the intent of making a profit. I don't see that a single builder either helps or hinders that opportunity, or that a standard feature of capitalism...

There'd be some interesting port/starboard action too if the give way boat forgets about their leeward appendage when ducking… The Quant28 looks reasonably safe for the crew since they're on a wire so unlikely to hit the foil of their own boat (dunno about passing, especially say port upwind vs...

Yep, get all that Phil, but given the choice of dial/ride height adjuster/winder/whatever (maybe RHA is ok) or an adjustable wand, I think most would pick the latter. An RHA messes with the wand/flap interface in bad ways that an adjustable wand doesn't. It's a simple control that makes the boat...

The change to bolt rope main is significant. It will make the boat much more attractive to the target market as if they get into trouble, they can just drop the main and be towed home. Rescuing Moths with sleeve mains isn't so simple. However, it will also sap performance a bit. I guess 2...

It's not just about one dimension of a static boat on an even keel. With a centreline T foil, healing to windward offsets the lifting foil to leeward, increasing RM. It also lightens the load as air pressure on the sail creates vertical lift, so the foil doesn't need to lift as much so less...

It's the same for boys. ;-) Good to know the pants don't slide down, but I'd be more concerned about the top riding up. Long johns/skiff suit doesn't do either (but yeah, toilet breaks need to be planned).

Sleeveless is more flexible when it gets warm, just wear a rashie under the wetsuit. When it's cold you can wear a neoprene top and a smock over the top. A smock is fantastic as it it keeps your upper body dry and stops wind chill (get one with a broad neoprene waist band that seals around your...

Yeah, should have done my own! There are some excellent papers out there that show doppler for velocity can be extremely accurate, but the mathematics is (of course) very complex. Probably the most detailed is Precise Velocity and Acceleration Determination Using a Standalone GPS Receiver in...