I have only a minuscule fraction of applicable experience as many here. However, with wisdom one understands that how a person responds also matters. Those with true knowledge and willingness to help, can provide much value. The value we add is probably not well measured by our "Rep", but I agree that "common sensibilities" do indeed matter. You have 3091/9284 = 0.33 rep per post, or 3 post per rep. rep per post) makes it all better.ĬutOnce has 205/454 = 0.45 rep per post, or 2.2 post per rep. A simple inversion of units (post per rep vs. Your comments make sense, but your math does not. And he and I consider that to be an improvement on the design of the Minuet for our specific purposes. The boat would use a sliding movable ballast system, DSS-F(fixed,removable) foils, gybing daggerboard and Dotan kick-up rudder. of upwind SA and 235sq.ft of downwind sailarea. The result of a lot of design work is a 14+ footer with 115 sq.ft. We agreed that we wanted a boat that would plane without the crew having to move athwartship. I talked to a friend about it and we agreed that improvement would result from a drier boat, a boat capable of handling waves and heavier conditions, a boat that would be faster on all points of sail, a boat with a spinnaker and a boat still small enough to be easily handled singlehanded even with the performance enhancing features we both liked -the asy spin, DSS, A-Class Cat wing mast section and movable ballast. But where I sail it would be impractical, very wet and very slow. The concept of a small "sit-in" boat is very appealing to me and the Minuet is a great little boat. I was privileged to grow up surrounded by snarly, impatient, frighteningly knowledgeable curmudgeons - and quickly learned to filter out personal nonsense from the priceless knowledge.īy improving the design of the Minuet, things like a self-bailing cockpit, more RM etc are things I was considering when I started the thread. Read his posts - and then make your own value judgement. If I were re-rigging a keel boat, especially if I was trying to re-use existing parts I'd place enormous value on Paul B's thoughts - and he's currently got negative rep points for the crime of calling things as he sees them without sugar coating or consideration for Miss Manner's behaviour. People may not "like" Apex1 or Paul B, but I have no doubts they know of what they write. Some of the most curmudgeonly, inhospitable and antagonistic members here have rep points values far lower than their knowledge deserves, as they aren't popular, sycophantic or even civil to those that they hold in contempt. Personally, I place no value on rep points as forum reputation is meaningless when it come to accurately measuring knowledge, experience, professional accreditation and work product. This provides marginally better insight into how the community values someone's contributions. In response to the bizarre concept of "rep points" a better metric is to divide a member's rep points by the number of posts made to see what accolades people get per comment made. In answer to the thread topic, I doubt the design of the Minuet can be improved dramatically while remaining a Minuet. The Minuet design is pretty good - and it doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it was intended to be. This thread has pretty much devolved into a blue sky discussion about something else completely (high performance maximum expense experimental tiny boats perhaps), than improving the design of the Minuet. The thread topic is " Minuet Yachts: a 2m fun boat-can the design be improved?". You will not be able to stuff it in the back of your station wagon, but a 200 pound boat doesn't need much of a trailer nor much of a car to haul it. It's not hard to have a small boat with sparkling preformance, room for the wife and a cooler full of beer too. The best thing that could be done with that little thing is make it bigger. The novelty of scooting along, in a literal pocket yacht is quaint, but no cooler of beer room, limits my interest as not practical enough to consider. These boats remind me of the 12 meter class of A/C boats, great sensations of speed, but really just pigs, considering what they were, dragging huge quartering waves and hanging lots of rail meat, to make you feel like you're actually going some place. Once along side a real sports car, you suddenly realize how under powered you actually are. A 4 cylinder engine of 80 HP and sitting very low, the sensation of speed is artificially increased. It's sort of like driving a 1960's British sports car. Many years ago I rode one of these things and they are quite responsive, but the preformance isn't as good as it feels like it is.
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