Well Bill, I'm getting swamped in NMBR rating system work so we'll just have to end our discussion.
My last comments are that you continiously put up straw man arguments (that bear rather strenious relationships with reality) so you can knock them with your straigh track setup.
This is deceiving less knowlegdable sailors. And yes Bill both I and many others have done quite some testing on these systems as well. You are not the only one, so please don't continue "I'm superstar, who are you ?" approach.
I am not talking about your fantasie system. I'm talking about the real world systems being discussed on the forum, hardware that has been built and tried and in production.
That is again your ignorance speaking. Does ORMA racing tris, Open 60 mono's and classic Dutch working sailbaots design sound real life enough for you ?
I'm not saying what is good or bad here. I'm just trying to explain the nature of the beast.
You are only describing the straight rail selftacker accurately. You are NOT describing the curved ones accurately.
And I will, for thr 7th time give the following reply to your statement :
The curved track bent to the radius of the foot of the jib produces no change in leech tension for any and all movements of the traveller car. For this reason this set up requires an additional control line to set the position of the jib car along the track
I HAVE a curved traveller (and so does Darren Bundock) that HAS as good as the same radius as the fot of the jib (NO selftacker in realy life has exactly the same radius as the foot, that is only seen in mind experiments) and I DO NOT have a second control line positioning the traveller car NOR do I need one optimal performance while sailing typical bouy races on a spinnaker equipped boat.
Now either Darren Bundocak and guys like Booth (and myself in this example) are all crazy and you are the only one in the world that is not OR the reverse is true.
Fact of the matter is. Your descriptions of curved selftackers is noticeable flawed and I think I can say that with good ground considering the big names on my side.
ohh by the way I haven't send you a private mail yet as I have far more serious things to do with NMBR. You were the first victom I'm afraid as I do not think a private mail to you serves any purpose
Good luck.
Wouter
