JimC wrote:
Jeff, I have not wanted to get into the issue of weight distribution in
detail

With good reason

.... since you pretty well had your assed kicked all over the ng on
that one.

???
Apparently you are just as loose with the term "ass kicking"
as you are with the term "fun to sail."



... Don't forget that you initially claimed that the
ballast
extends the full length of the boat

Which is exactly what MacGregor's own diagrams of the boat
show. Are they wrong?

.... and that was a bad distribution of
mass (and would tend to increase pitching movement).

It's a bad distribution of mass largely because it would
tend to increase pitching. Not quite the same thing.

For a lawyer, you are very poor with language.

Deliberately so, I assume.

DSK