Brent Swain
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I'm afraid that boat builders and designers are rather more savvy than you give them credit for. A boat builder pays people to work and if they could get away with paying fewer people and building boats faster that were as good as you claim, then they would be buying your plans and building them. There's no grand conspiracy among boat builders and the yachting industry. It's dog eat dog in many ways and if someone thought that could turn a penny making origami boats out of steel and then selling them, then they would be building them. To suggest otherwise is delusional.
First of all, you are trying to shift the argument. I pointed out that composite boats sail millions of miles compared to the 350,000 miles that you claim as 'mostly trouble free sailing' for your designs and builds and self builds. It's a fact and shows your so called argument for what it is - a nonsense and of very little value. I have no idea whether more BS origami boats sail oceans than composite boats. You may well be right, but again it 'proves' nothing. You're selling to a niche clientele who have a stated aim of sailing across oceans. By your own admission, people don't build BS origami designs to sit in marinas. You sell them as the last answer in ocean cruising on a shoestring and if you could somehow show that more steel origami boats sail across oceans (proportionately) than composite boats, all it would show is that most people who buy boats don't sail across oceans and more people who build steel origami boats do. The '350,00 mainly trouble free sailing' doesn't actually prove that your designs are safe. GZ curves and stability data (without the false figures produced by sealed steel masts!) might give some ides of what is what. A critical look at all aspects of your design might help too. Some polar diagrams of predicted boat speed and VMG vs wind angle would be interesting, but I doubt they exist.
And please don't start harping on and quoting 'fast passages' that have been made. I quoted a couple to you from Sigma 33's sailing across the Atlantic and admitted immediately that they mean diddly squat.
Your claim that there is a conspiracy by boat builders and the yachting industry and 'yacht sailsmen and women' against your designs is more about your self justification as to why everyone can't see your point of view.
You have given zero proof that your composite boats have ever crossed any ocean. Zero proof of your claimed daily runs and speed. I'm not saying they haven't ,only that you have given zero proof that any have.
For 95% of cruisers ,any such proof simply doesn't exist.
Several steel boat builders locally have gone bankrupt , while I continued on for decades, by making them affordable, for people who could never afford a new, custom steel boat , built using their 1950's methods.
When I retired, I turned down several, in one year .
With the bankers breathing down their necks, and the inside unpainted ,most commercial builders just sprayfoamed over rusty steel or primer , rather than epoxy them properly, causing them to rust out inside , in a decade or two.
All that mattered at the moment was getting the banker off their backs.
Backyard builders tend to do things more properly.
Several people around here, who have bought stock plastic boats , are now saying they want steel boats.
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