about getting what you ask for...

Obsidian Wings asks a question, Badtux cranks up the lie detector, and G&T talks guitar solos...

The other day I had one of those eureka moments when pondering just why, in spite of all of the collected tech and knowledge about how sailboats go, so many modern boats just plain suck.

It's not that designers are choosing to design bad boats but, for the most part, the boat buying public is insisting that they do.

It's our fault not theirs.

Of course, if designers developed a little more backbone when it came to market forces dictating design parameters we'd have better boats. But then, designers have bills to pay so if we insist on asking for stupid MacMansion boats they're going to design them for us.

Listening to Steam Powered Giraffe

So it goes...