Not as good as Roller Derby but a sure sight better than wrestling...

Dorworth on Yosemite, how Orlov went to camp, and the politics of denial...

Recently I was reading a designer of boats slinging crap at another designer of boats...

Not an uncommon occurence. Designers of boats being one of those groups, as a whole, who don't play well with others and the accepted way to get ahead is not to, you know, design a better boat but to attack another designer's work.

The downside is that the whole not playing well with others thing tends to slow down the evolution of boat design a lot. While obviously the whole frothing at the mouth and slinging poo can be quite entertaining and I'm just a little embarrassed to admit I am gleefully waiting for the other designer to retaliate and sling insults and poo back (sort of a cross between roller derby and WWF).

I expect it may get ugly...

What bothers me is that both designers in question actually are arguing concepts that don't really make much sense and are exhibiting a whole lot of dumbass where composite structures are concerned.

I find this to be a somewhat scary state of affairs because it would seem that their sole understanding of composite stucture stems not from long study of materials various properties but simply a catch phrase from advertising copy spewed out from Carbon R Us which, of course, is not really about how to make a better composite but to sell carbon fiber.

There is so much misinformation floating around about carbon fiber that it's nearly impossible to understand what's what and folks building boats depend on designers to have their act together on the subject.

You'd think a Composite Structures 101 would be available online...

Listening to Alan Price

So it goes...