Brent Swain
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Reading through Boatdesign net half a dozen Professional engineers another group of Naval architects and various professional yacht designers boat builders and steel worjkers all revealed that you had almost no understanding of the failure modes of metal hulls. Virtually no understanding whatsoever of the technical process of yacht design, and that you not only completely misunderstood the process, but that you lied extensively about several things, including the derivation of stability for your designs.
The result was that BS Origami is apparently quite dead now, no ones building the boats anymore following the revelations made firstly on BD net. Everyone who was interested is building frameless Van de Staadts instead.
Even one of your own clients posted that he dumped an unfinished BS origami hull and built a VDS hull instead, he even gave you an earful on BD net and told you to man up and listen to the professionals that were offering to help you improve your design and deduce the correct stability curve. You want the link ?
So you were severely mauled by the pro's there. There were several other revelations too. So it's no wonder you try and do a BS job on BD net.
Pros ? Only by their own claims .Any kid in his mother's basement can make their claims , with as little evidence, and you would believe them, if they told you what you want to hear.
One cowboy there said he welded up a lot of steel fence posts, so he knows more than me about steel boat building!
Typical of the "Expertise "there.
What Professional Engineers or designers are you talking about? Only one designer there ,who designed his own origami boat , which looks like a plagerism of mine. Only one had any considerable steel boat building experience, who said origami is a good idea, he just didn't like me.
When I asked them about their own cruising experience, only he had any to report , limited coastal cruising experience. The rest had none to report. One Australian ,Tasmanian, Pete Wiley was building a Colvin Saugeen witch.He took years to get to a stage I get to in a week.
Several of my clients have upgraded from a Saugeen witch to my boats, a huge improvement , they all said , far roomier, better sailing ,easier to maintain etc etc.
Wiley claimed his was much roomier , with over a foot less waterline beam ,and 8 ft wasted on cockpit and lazarette, so little head room under the side decks , the deck hits you in the back of the neck, when you sit on the setee berth . You do the math. They are like a collection of closets, inside.
All the hundreds who have chosen my designs , many with extensive offshore experience, could have chosen Van de Stats, or any other designs. All said they made the wiser choice.
Van de Stadt is one of very few designers who have taken advantage of the properties of steel, advancing ahead of the outdated , 1950s , wooden boat building methods . His designs and methods are second only to mine, the next step in small steel boat building progress.
Winston Bushnell had a circumnavigation behind him ,when he built his first brentboat . After circling the Pacific in her, via Ponape , Japan and the Aleutians, ( covered by Pacific Yachting Magazine, and two books about the trip) what did he choose for the NW passage ? Another brentboat. After a single season passage thru the NW passage, what did he choose for his next boat/?Another brentboat.
What did his daughter choose ? A brentboat. Read "When Kim Rowed Over "Sail Magazine.
After a couple of 2 year stints around the S Pacific ,as far as Australia, and back to Alaska, what did Andy Deering choose for his recently started Alaska boat? A brentboat? (Twin keels this time, for the 20 ft tides up there.) Another one of my 40 footers was just started in Oregon, on the recommendation of Andy.
Dr Steve Millar, a had at trip from BC to New Zealand and back in his wake ,when he chose a brentboat for his Cape Horn ambition. Search Silas Crosby. He recommended Tagish for a circumnavigation.Search Tagish.
Which client did you claim dumped one of mine? Pete Wiley? He never started one of mine. Never bought the plans. Bought my book, and committed copyright infringement on that site. Didn't like the AVS of 165 degrees of my 36, calculated by two independent sources. Only started the Saugeen witch . So what is the AVS of the Saugeen witch? Wiley didn't have it. I doubt one exists.
Friends with brentboat experience were banned from BD .net, and other sites , for saying positive, experience based things , about their brentboats. Anyone with such experience, trying to pass their experience on, were automatically accused of being me.
Yes, with the world awash in plastic boats no one wants anymore , far fewer backyard boats are being built ,or new boats in general. I have heard most designers have experienced a huge slowdown in work. Just in time for me. I make good plans available, for the benefit of the home builder, who doesn't want to take forever for a mediochre boat, but wants to end up with one of the most well proven steel boats out there. If he wants to do it the hard way , let him go ahead . I couldn't care less. I am retired . Turned down all boat building requests, since my pension started sending me more money than I need. It just keeps piling up.
Building a hull in 3 days ,and a shell in a week , is very strenuous work. I prefer to go fishing sailing ,or hunting instead. Even in my youth , a month of that a year was all the body could take .
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