Capt. Rob wrote:
After poor Bob Crantz was utterly disemboweled by the fact that the
35s5 cockpit is actually 7 feet long, he and Capt Scumbagolino are now
trying to say "it isn't."

Sorry Bob, you lost this troll the minute you took out the tape
measure! What a PUTZ!!!

And it seems that you walked around your marina measuring all the
other boats!


Of course two days ago they posted a graphic of it and I posted exact
dimensions, but that was too upsetting to bear. So poor Bob tried to
say (and this was damn funny!) that the helm is not part of a cockpit!
Then he tried to claim the cabin house sloped (It doesn't) and
finally...claiming that the measurement is not from the seat level to
helm seat back, but somehow beyond that.
So here's what I measured:

From point where cabin house meets bench seat, back to helmseat back
(Not extending to measure the coaming. I don't get 7'1. I get 7 feet
exactly. In other words, a 7 foot tall person could lie down (if you
pop off the wheel).

If you "pop off the wheel"??? Isn't that like claiming the aft cabin
has great ventilation, as long as the air conditioning is running?

It really seems like you're intent on proving you have the best Marina
Queen around.


That's more bench room than any of the other boats
I listed and also more room than a CS36, Catalina 34 and so on.
Measuring from seat-back to seat-back the cockpit is 5'9. Since there
is a slight slope to the seat-backs I chose the midway point. It's a
bit more higher up. So 7 X 5.9 is a proper INTERNAL dimension and does
not include any coamings.

Sorry, Bob, because the wheel completely splits the cockpit, you can
only measure the space forward of wheel as being available to the crew.


Now...do Crantz and Scrambledlino have any integrity? Do they truly
believe their claims? Here's the wager, if they choose to accept it: If
I prove beyond any doubt that the 35s5 cockpit is 7 feet long they MUST
LEAVE ASA for good. Of course they'll return with new fake personas.

What claim are you talking about? Are are insisting that the cockpit
is smaller than they say? Your cockpit is clearly not "large"
compared to lots of other boats.

Here's large cockpit:
http://www.marshallcat.com/m22cpit3.htm

Here's another bigger cockpit on a smaller boat:
http://www.alerionexpress.net/id96.html

And if you like the separate helm, here's the proper way to do it, on
a boat faster than yours:
http://www.alerionexpress.net/id107.html

or perhaps:
http://www.bruckmannyachts.com/daysailer.htm


If I don't prove it, I'll leave ASA. So let's see what we see! It'll
take me all of 30 seconds to take a pic of the cockpit with a measuring
tape of course....no trouble at all as I'm measuring for Doyle today
anway.

Sure, we'd love to see you make a further idiot of yourself taking
pictures of a measuring tape.