Nigel wrote:
"Steve Lusardi" wrote in message
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Gk,
What you want to do is illegal. The design is not public property. Buying
a license to build is the honest correct method.

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I understand your point, but if a builder is building from a set or study
plans, they have to do so without any structual detail and is simply
building a boat that looks similiar. My piont really.... The OP wouldn't end
up with a Bruce Roberts, just a boat that looked similar, how diffent would
it need to be before the builder could claim it was his own design?



If you think it's ok to steal someone's work, then you are probably
too stupid to design the structural detail properly.

Criminals are, generally, deficient in their ability to reason,
somehow. With no respect for others as a result of faulty social
thinking, they demonstrate an inability to think correctly in other
areas.

This usually has to do with some shortcoming in the assemblage of
certain other of their sentient organs. The only true salvation for
these types is for them to realize their imperfection, and ask for
inspiration to mend their ways. The Golden rule is all the guidance
a reasonable person needs. Would you want your life's work stolen
and abused, modified and destroyed, capitalized for profit,
adulterated from a good design to one that kills, using your once
respected name?

The lines of a vessel are a compromise in engineering intended to
balance strength, efficiency, capacity, durability, and looks. The
equation is not a simple one.

Would you want to wear a cheap, stolen design knock off life jacket,
from inferior cheap materials using inferior cheap manufacture, to
save a few bucks while you top dance for the sharks? How would you
feel if it was your name stamped on such a Knakawf?

If you really want to design a decent boat yourself, you need to
take a bunch of courses in marine engineering.

You will have to pay for those courses too, purchasing the knowlege
for yourself from it's developers, unless you can reason it all out
properly yourself. Stealing a "look" which you will undoubtedly want
to sell as the original some day, sooner than later, if quality has
to do with it, is shameful, a sin and a crime.

Terry K