Wouter my friend...I will give you the benefit of the doubt about the bows of the ARC 17 being driven so far under water at the Aquarius web site. I specifically questioned Bill about that very thing on this open forum. His answer was that they purposely drove the bows under for the photo shoot to show the ARC 17's inherent resistance to pitch pole. I thought you had probably read that yourself.

As far as addressing your other comments...you know where I stand, and I know where you stand on these issues...lets just agree to disagree.

I was trying to give the original poster the information he requested...that is, identifying catamaran design problems and their possible solutions. Since Bill Roberts has spent pretty much his whole catamaran design career on this very topic, I thought it would be very informative to do a bit of research on Bill's design history.

I agree with you that there are many solutions to the same problem. What I was trying to convey is that from my perspective, Bill Roberts seem to have an uncanny ability to find solutions to design problem with logic while avoiding unnecessary complexity.

With all do respect, until you put in some time on one of his designs (with it properly set up) you may never fully appreciate his genius.

Regards,
Bob