Personally I think that "taking it off-line" is suspicious.

That way one can tell another person a load of nonsense without having the peer review that keeps us all on the straight and narrow.

Or at least it doesn't allow others to provide a counterview, if that is applicable.

Interestingly enough, Scooby Simon actually sailed with an alu masted Inter-17 for 6 years; he now has another type of singlehander cat with a carbon mast. So I think his experience may actually be quite valuable in this particular thread.

This despite the fact that Bob Curry may feel that Simon has switched to the dark side and therefor has lost all rights to participate in this thread (discussion).

Wouter