The navigator© wrote:

.... I'm
just waiting to see if my estimate agrees with that of Bolger.

Seems to me that Phil Bolger would have more than an "estimate." It's very likely that at
least one person has done static tests on their boats.



BUT it's
not 180 degeees Dog and that is why you've lost.

Even if the Micro's stability is not 180 degrees, I have not lost anything. Did you find
something?


.. LPOS does not include buoyancy of the
rig as -I said.

The official calculation does not. However, it is not intended to be applied to homebuilt 15
footers. As a matter of strict practicality, the range of positive stability very much
includes the rig and the cabin trunk and deck camber and a number of other things that are
off the official balance sheet.

.... I just
have to show something that will have a higher LPS in that size range.
Remember ANYTHING includes boat designs. So I don't have to find an
existing boat but just simply specify a boat that has a higher LPS.

If the boat doesn't exist, then you'll have to built it and prove it doesn't have a higher
LPOS. Meanwhile I suppose I could go to the trouble of building a Micro and setting it up to
demonstrate 180 degree positive stability. It would probably cost less than your design, but
then that wasn't the bet.

The bet was that you could not name a boat in the same size range (by LOA or disp) that had a
higher LPOS. You have not done so, nor made a serious attempt. In fact your red herring about
designing your own boat to win the bet is pretty much an admission that you don't think such
a boat currently exists.

Therefor, you have lost.

DSK