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Naa no subterfuge. Just that I've seen countless threads on here over the past couple decades about "sailing sux because... Back in the good ol days it was better because...." and this seems the same as the rest of those threads. What comes of it? Nothing. The sport evolves. Lifestyles...

And I was pointing out to you that there is nothing stopping you from presenting a developed business plan and putting it forth to the appropriate channels. Have at it buckwheat. There is nothing I see in this thread that looks like a developed roadmap, or even any consensus on what the actual...

Feel free to take it up with USSailing, or create your own organization that will solve the nebulous ills of sailing as we know it in the USA.

Lotsa complaints. anyone care to suggest a road map to make things better?

Time is the diminished resource. I didn't get my own boat until just before I retired because my work day started at 415am and I got home at 5 to 6pm. Ocassionally some work on weekends as well. Also, saving the overwhelming bulk of my income to my kids college funds so they could come out...

Spend more money than everyone else on the course.

I dunno.. 45 pounds seems a bit high. All of my shrouds on my 40 footer with I of 53 feet are 43 pounds, double spreader rig. You can do a simple moment calc on your boat assume the VCG of your shrouds is a bit less than halfway up your rig, and see if your vcg would appreciably change. Just...

Hey no chickening out! My guess was a 20 sec eyeball, figuring it was gonna be a bit on the stiff side to size rigging and wasn't suggesting it actually be used, but just a rom to give a ballpark number. Is the rm60 the peak?

In nearly 6 decades sailing, I have never seen a perfect boat.

Ok. SA is often computed that way, but when getting into real performance prediction, actual sail area is always used. Why fight about that? If I was comparing boats to estimate performance, especially a boat with a large overlapping headsail, I'd use actual sail area. But hey you can use...

Generally, no you don't usually look at some partial failure load case, although you definitely can. Most of the time rig specs use generous safety factors, but not always. And designing chainplate structures after the shrouds have been spec'd should give you the shrouds themselves as failing...

Maybe. Short mast as well though, rough guess of max righting arm just by eyeball, thinking that hard chine will move the CB well outboard quickly as it heels. Ya get what you pay for... without an incline test you won't know. Also if one is specing out hardware based on righting moment, you...

Gives righting moment at 30 degrees, not max righting moment as requested.

Maybe a rough guess... 15000 lb x 2.5 ft = 37500 ft.lb Add on a safety factor of your choice

Well here, our lottery money was supposed to go to schools. Then the big argument for casinos was that the tax revenue was to go to schools. We all know that never happened.. But we do have federal tax dollars being spent to build shopping malls in preferred Congressional districts. So eff...

Nice blue. Very nice.

Does any of that money on your side of the pond come from tax dollars? Just curious.

"...... The deeper problem is that those ingredients all require resources… in other words, money. ......" American business for the most part is concerned with money as well. The bottom line is king in American business- the environment here is too competitive for the most part to not get any...

Years ago prepping an 85 footer for transatlantic race, the mainsheet was attached to a beefy titanium plate with a shackle at the top mainsheet block. The hole in the Ti plate was significantly extended, worn by action of the shackle pin such that the hole was extended about 50% of the...

If Cayard's plan didn't make sense, why was he hired?