"Gilligan" wrote in message
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"Paladin" noneofyourbusiness.www wrote in message
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The rudder is also
state of the art elliptical.



http://www.tspeer.com/Planforms/Planforms.html


One must remember that RB's boat was designed over 20 years ago when disco
was king and the science of computational hydrodynamics was sorely lacking
due to limited computational means available to designers. RB's yacht was
designed by rules of thumb, a little trial and error and almost no
optimization. Computer power was highly inadequate in the mid-80's and stone
age-like compared to the computation power available today. Think of pac-man
back then and X-Box today. Rob's yacht, though it may have a few good
points, is of Pac-Man technology. Today's performance sailboat designs will
run circles around his boat designed in the era of donkey kong platform
shoes.

Amen!