Jeff wrote:

DSK wrote:

JimC wrote:

(Helpful hint: Since you won't have any substantive answers, just
avoid answering the questions. - Post some more propaganda.)


You mean like "the Mac 26 will arrive ahead of the fastest sailboat"?

Of course, I never claimed that it would sail faster than other boats.

Or maybe your references to how the water ballast "begins to work
after being lifted above the waterline"?

Where did I say this? - That wasn't my comment at all. - As explained
above.

Cast that beam out of thy eye, Jim!

Glad to. As soon as you start quoting what I said, rather than what you
think I said.

stability analysis of the 26M/X. It certainly has a high center of
gravity, and the metacentric height has to be pretty low.

It operates on the same principle (ballast carried within the the hull,
in the lower portion of the hull) as most ocean-going vessels. And the
same principle used in tall ships for hundreds of years.



And the other issue is that the water ballast extends all the way from
stem to stern. This can't be helping the pitching moment at all.

Wrong again. it extends about 2/3rds, and the front and rear portions of
the tank taper to sharp end portions and are therefore of little mass
and no real consequence re the distribution of mass.

Jim