Navigator wrote:
... Cross cut spinnakers largely disappeared years ago

Really? That must be why the current North and Sobstad runners on
Lightnings (and a few other one designs I believe) are all cross cut.

If you look at the panels on the spinnaker you've been criticizing for a
week, you'd see plainly that it is cross cut.

DSK

DSK wrote:

Navigator wrote:
... Cross cut spinnakers largely disappeared years ago

Really? That must be why the current North and Sobstad runners on
Lightnings (and a few other one designs I believe) are all cross cut.

If you look at the panels on the spinnaker you've been criticizing for a
week, you'd see plainly that it is cross cut.



I said 'largely' and even gave a URL (read the post) to all cross cut
spins Doug. So what are you trying to get at, are you saying that radial
cuts are not the most common running spinnaker by far?

Cheers

Navigator wrote:
...So what are you trying to get at

Can you not read plain English?

DSK

DSK wrote:

Navigator wrote:

...So what are you trying to get at


Can you not read plain English?


I don't think you should question my knowlege or command of English
Doug. Perhaps you should try to think about what you posted and the
context of my simple question before you fly off the handle further.

Cheers

Navigator wrote:
I don't think you should question my knowlege or command of English
Doug.

Why? You seem unable to understand simple sentences.

... Perhaps you should try to think about what you posted and the
context of my simple question before you fly off the handle further.

I have not flown off the handle, just pointing out that what I posted
was not complex nor difficult to understand, so why don't you grasp it?

DSK

DSK wrote:

Navigator wrote:

I don't think you should question my knowlege or command of English Doug.


Why? You seem unable to understand simple sentences.

... Perhaps you should try to think about what you posted and the
context of my simple question before you fly off the handle further.


I have not flown off the handle, just pointing out that what I posted
was not complex nor difficult to understand, so why don't you grasp it?



Do you know what this symbol - ? - means as in "Are you talking about
a radial cut?" ???

Cheers

Navigator wrote:
Do you know what this symbol - ? - means as in "Are you talking about
a radial cut?" ???

Do you know what this symbol means - . - as in "If I meant a radial
cut, I'd have said 'radial cut' instead of 'cross cut'. Period.

Very simple English, why can you not understand?

DSK

Checking up on Doug's clear assertion (below) I find that Doug is not
correct. North say their fastest spinnaker is a radial and that 2003
Lightning world champions use them.

http://www.northsailsod.com/class/li...lightning.html

"For top performance and durability, we offer the R-2 and the RC-1
spinnakers. Both spinnakers are fill radial with fully glued seams for
smoothness and resistance to snags. Both are built from AirX fabric."

Tell me Doug, why did you say that they were cross cut? Are you confused
or BSing? Are you now going to take my spinnaker advice and get a faster
radial sail?

Cheers

DSK wrote:


Really? That must be why the current North and Sobstad runners on
Lightnings (and a few other one designs I believe) are all cross cut.

Navigator wrote:
Checking up on Doug's clear assertion (below) I find that Doug is not
correct. North say their fastest spinnaker is a radial and that 2003
Lightning world champions use them.

http://www.northsailsod.com/class/li...lightning.html

"For top performance and durability, we offer the R-2 and the RC-1
spinnakers. Both spinnakers are fill radial with fully glued seams for
smoothness and resistance to snags. Both are built from AirX fabric."

Please quote the part that says specifically which spinnakers the 2003
World (or for that matter the 2003 NA) champs use. In fact it says
specifically that the R-2 and RC-1 are *reaching* spinnakers. You know
the difference between reaching and running, yes?

If you looked further down that same page you find the Bruin and another
cross cut runner.

"The Bruin has long been recognized for the downwind performer that it
is. Slightly flatter in the middle for 1998, the Bruim is much more an
all-around performer with little sacrifice to its proven broad reaching
and running performance."

Gee, you must be wetting your pants thinking that you've *finally* shown
me wrong, for once. Of course, you almost were a man and admitted your
mistake about those big old wooden ships, but now that's all behind you,
eh? Back to the same old bluff & bluster for Navvie!

Fresh Breezes (to them wot kin use 'em)- Doug King

DSK wrote:

Navigator wrote:

Checking up on Doug's clear assertion (below) I find that Doug is not
correct. North say their fastest spinnaker is a radial and that 2003
Lightning world champions use them.

http://www.northsailsod.com/class/li...lightning.html

"For top performance and durability, we offer the R-2 and the RC-1
spinnakers. Both spinnakers are fill radial with fully glued seams for
smoothness and resistance to snags. Both are built from AirX fabric."



Back to the same old bluff & bluster for Doug King