You did good Karl! Actually, I responded to him already. Knowing Dave, I
suspect his transom bar comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek. I deny (almost
entirely) that the bar was added because I had some left over wood.
As I pointed out, I use colors when I intermix my text with the builder's.
If I don't and I backspace while I'm writing, AOL will eliminate the little
arrows that indicate the original post. Once that happens, I use color to
separate the two. For the Canooks, I'll use pink in the future (to show my
sensitivity).
Actually, the point of my comments was to use the opportunity to save
builder's in general a lot of grief. Examples?
1. building launcher throats without hybrid
2. building blades over foam with little or no hybrid (also, not following
the other instructions in the PDF)
3. moving deck hardware without regard to the impact on other systems (
I've been guilty of this one far more times than I'll admit)
4. Installing spreaders that are too long and not raked properly.
5. Making spreaders using a number of untried and unsuccessful
lay-ups/methods.
6. Mast builders failing to follow the specific instruction to use Plexus
425 to bond the track
All of the above have led to failures. Some of the failures have led to
posted ideas on how to avoid the problem in the future (except "follow the
original friken instructions" is only occasionally the suggested solution).
Please realize that I've spent a lot of time over the last seven years on R&D
and had already made many of these mistakes before writing the manuals (there
are a couple of exceptions). My intention with all of this is to get everyone
to spend your time improving from the current state of the art instead of
working to find systems and methods almost as good. Without trying the status
quo, you'll likely not know which of the two you are engaged in.
Bram
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