"Roger Long" wrote in message
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"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote

Can you say self-immolation?

Yes, and I highly recommend it in some circumstances.

Filters work both ways. This is primarily a group for sharing information
that might be useful to other cruisers. I am curious why, with all the
miles you have sailed, and the fine vessels you own, you rigerously filter
out any specific information that might provide you with the credibility
and approval you clearly seek by the volumn of your posts here. Clearly,
in all that experience you gained before settling permanently within WiFi
range, there is much knowledge and wisdom you could pass on that would
make you a valuable member of this group instead of a joke.

I post specific information both here and on my web site for two reasons.
First, some of it may help others. I have been professionally involved
with boats for 38 years. There are people retrofitting limit switches to
their Raymarine Tillerpilots right now as a result of the information on
the prototype that I posted here. Second, I learn things as someone has
not been very involved with yacht scale systems and doesn't know
everything anyway. I've posted proposed modifications to my vessel and
had people here point out problems with them and the eventual
installations are better as a result.

Surely, someone with the knowledge and experience you claim could do the
same. You clearly have the time judging by the volume of tiresome blather
that has you starring in so many kilfiles.

--
Roger Long


Your post demonstrates the basic difference between a liberal and a
conservative. With your liberal outlook that embraces censorship and
closed-mindedness you came to an erroneous conclusion concerning the
tillerpilot situation. You took a narrow view and an uneducated. You came up
with a modification that did not address the root problem but addressed a
symptom of the root problem.

Rather than addressing symptoms, we conservatives would rather address the
problem. The problem is that you need to learn how to trim your sails to
balance your boat. It's obvious to any real sailor that your boat is way
unbalanced. Because it is out of balance by virtue of the fact that
excessive rudder and tiller movement is required to keep it on course, I
would have addressed the problem - failure to properly trim the sails and/or
otherwise balance the vessel - so the tillerpilot did not have to go stop to
stop in a failed attempt to keep steering under control. A designer cannot
foresee the breadth and depth of human stupidity and thus cannot design a
piece of equipment to be foolproof. To do so would require a never-ending
testing period by a never ending queue of fools. I am sure that among the
basic assumptions the designer of that tillerpilot made was sailors at least
knew how to balance their vessel by proper sail trim.

But because of your narrow, liberal outlook, others like you are going
around modifying their tillerpilots instead of learning how to balance their
vessels by using proper sail trim. The result of this is slow, dangerous,
ill-handling boats. And you have the nerve to claim you are some sort of
authority when it comes to sailing? What you are engaged in is degradation
of sailing skills. Like I stated previously, liberals are generally failures
at what they attempt. But, you don't see it because you surround yourself
with similar failures who lack the means to do anything but go along with
folly. How can they when they take great pains to filter their world to make
it less than real? You just cannot deal with reality unrealistically and you
can't be realistic unless you have access to ALL the facts. You can't "feel"
your way through life.

You might fool the other ignorant, lubberly liberals but you don't fool
expert, experienced conservative sailors such as myself who have realistic
conservative outlooks. We look first at ourselves when something goes awry
instead of rushing to blame others or boat systems. Then we ask ourselves
what we can do to improve our sailing skills rather than blaming our
shortcomings on hardware that's having trouble coping with obvious adverse
symptoms caused by our lack of know-how while coming up with unnecessary
modifications that mask our stupidity all the while acting like we are a
credit to sailing.

Don't you see how ludicrous this all is to those of us who are knowledgeable
enough to see through your ill-informed ways and means?

Wilbur Hubbard