JAXAshby wrote:

dougies, the capsize ratio is widely discredited as a predictor of anything
but
being the capsize ratio.

"Discredited"? By whom?

everyone, dougies, but you.

Please explain... as of the fall of 2003, there
were a number of offshore races around here that required a certain CSR
for certain classes.

and some races won't allow a Westsail 32 in (too small) but will allow a Hunter
33 (big enough). idiots abound, dougies.


... You can find some pretty horrible boats with ratio's
as low as 1.75 and far better boats with 1.95+.

Well, that's very true given the wide lattitude in defining "horrible"
and "better."

many truly horrible Hunter boats have c/r below 2.00, even down to about 1.75
IIRC.

Any, dougies, should you have taken care to learn what capsize ratio is ou
would have learned that is is nothing but the ratio of the displacement to beam
times some unnatural acts. It says not a thing about where that displacement
is in relation to the buoyancy. It is the kind of thing that makes a
non-too-good sailor like a Cabo Rico 38 look good in the telling.



the capsize ratio takes too little into consideration to be much more than
a
quite guide.

Kind of like your posts, huh?

DSK