Bill,
How many times are you going to use that B.S. "ignorance excuse"?
Pretending you have not seen any other cats since the Hobie 14 & 16 in 1970 is an asinine attempt to justify your lies.

Your statement "I have only seen the newer Hobie Cat products from a distance" is a LIE .
Hobie has been using locking steps for twenty years.
You have been on the beach next to Hobies many times in the past twenty years.
I was at the regatta YOU attended with the Supercat Nationals in Columbia, SC last year.
I saw you parked in the middle of Hobies and Nacras for two days.

And now you are trying to spin "copies one of my ideas" doesn't mean "I invented".
What is the difference between MY IDEA and MY INVENTION?
If you didn't INVENT it, why would it " rub you the wrong way"?

Face it Bill, you were caught in a lie AGAIN, and you can't find enough mathematical formulas to save face.

Give your best spin.