Hitting the nail right smack dab on the head, thumbs on the scales of justice, and an apt comment...
There's a discussion over at the JRA forum discussing a possible junk rig sailboat design that I find rather irksome but it's a great reminder about how there is so much bad information floating around about how boats work.
Especially where shoal draft, forms of ballast, and lateral resistance are concerned...
I think what bothers me is junk rig advocates should know full well how much misinformation there is about their rig of choice and so it would seem they'd be a lot more cynical/skeptical about other areas of boat design or suchlike.
Which, I suspect, is why the junk rig is nowhere near as successful as it could be. They're not designing junk rig sailboats but adapting junk rigs to existing Bahamian sloop thinking and there's a difference.
A big difference...
Listening to Ben E. King
So it goes...
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