On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 20:35:39 -0500, "Garland Gray"
wrote:

The idea of newsgroups is to share experience, I assume.

In a way, that is what I was doing. Perhaps I'm fortunate to have a
really good rigger that has given me a *lot* of incredibly good advice
over the years. He sees hundreds of different boats and rigging
issues every year, getting far more experience with such things than I
ever will. He also has a direct pipeline to all of the engineering
folks behind the different products that he services.