JAXAshby wrote:

ah, hoary, have you set foot on a sailboat at any time in the last 70 years?


Indeed, in fact, you are addressing someone who was a fairly successful
"club" racer of BlueJays and Lightnings, back when boats were made of
wood, and someone whose high school sailing days were aboard a lovely
L16 made especially for my father by Bill L. himself. And that's just in
my younger sailing days.



help us out, hoary. tell us what you learned way back then


That it's no fun to sail when there's no wind.




or, if that is beyond you, google for a couple days (0.14 seconds for anyone
else) to find out why diesel engines have longer connecting rods relative to
cylinder bore than gas engines.

You know what? I don't really care. Whether they do or don't doesn't
pass my WGAS test. That's who who gives a ****.



Or why a diesel needs a larger stroke relative to bore?

WGAS.


Or why sails are made of cloth?


As opposed to what? Pasta?