Now, now boys!

I don't suppose there's ANY chance at all that you two could just kiss and make up?

I'll take that as a racing certainty and suggest that you simply agree to disagree (entertaining though it most certainly has been thus far) Neither of you are likely to back down and all this airing of dirty linen is doing multihull sailing in general no service at all.

Just my two pence worth....

Whow, you guys really can type fast on your keyboards. Here I was leaving the forum to fix some lamb chops for dinner, and you have a slug feast in the meantime..

Maughan, what has the length of your femur to do with getting under the boom. If you are down on your knees, you are too slow. You pass under the boom on your hands and feet, just like you do the barbed wire obstacle in the infantry training course.. My 195cm regular crew manages on the Tornado, and he is not especially agile.

Rolf:

Please, do me a favor and whenever I address wouter, take my comments as tongue-in-cheek

Just trying to be objective and get some useful info out of this

Anchorman: "I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE YELLING ABOUT!......"LOUD NOISES!"
If you haven't seen Anchorman, quit work and go rent it. Now.

Personally, I think they should sail the Alter Cup on Hobie Bravos one year -- and not let anybody know what boat it is until a month before the event (just let people know ahead of time whether it is a singlehander or a doublehander). And they could do it another year on the Windrider trimaran.

The purpose of the US Sailing Multihull Championship is to determine who is the best sailor -- the boat used is irrelevant -- and the less the participants know about sailing and racing a particular boat, the better.

Hey Tad,

"F16, the other Mac26"
or
"Wouter, the other Mighetto"

The F16 does not deserve that dubious distinction.

And as much hell as I like to give Wouter, nobody can live up to the level of infamy other than that of HWSNBN himself.

I'll have to disagree with Mary though on this one. I think the boat should be named well in advance so we blowhards can talk about stuff on the internet that we are really not all that qualified to talk about

Actually, I think giving the teams the opportunity to practice on the decided platform is a good idea, and would lead to better racing.

Although I'm not sure how many alter cup teams go out and buy the latest platform for practicing, so I could be full of snot anyways.

Actually, if it were not the "Multihull" championship, I think it should be done on Optimist dinghies.

Hmmmmm, i've got some old Hobie 18 crossbeams. Mary, round up 2 optis and we'll have ourselves a cat. We can even put a sunfish rig on it---->"Hobiefishamaran".

Sounds fishy..

Would probably be smelly too...

and ugly

Then maybe it would be a two-person boat.

The Aquacat would be another good one for the Alter Cup. I have a feeling that nobody has ever asked the manufacturer.

Tad, CraigO,

Please guys, can we keep Catsailor Mighetto and Mac26-free?

rumored 2008 bid

DUDE SHHHH.

He Who Shall Not Be Named (HWSNBN) googles his name and then shows up where-ever mentioned. Why do you think we call him HWSNBN?

Do you stand on it or sit on it????

Sorry I broke the Code of HWSNBN. I just think Dike Boy is about 1 degree removed from HWSNBN. If he starts talking about Modes, then we know he's related to HWSNBN!!!!