John you raise a good point…just because the Maximum Length is set at 12’-10” wouldn’t have stopped anyone from building a boat 12’-0” long if that fit their personal goals.
I totally fail to understand why this is such a point of contention. Bill Roberts tried to tell us for years that you design a boat based on the numbers…not some arbitrary preconceived idea…apparently he got tired of beating his head against the wall since I haven’t seen him post in quite some time.
We had a chance to birth a new class that everyone said they wanted but seem we have self-destructed over the fact that an engineer ran the calculations and the numbers said that a much more efficient and useful design could be constructed if lengthened by just 10 inches … while keeping all the important primary objectives of cost, ease of construction, and light weight. It amazes me how many people just flatly ignore that the laws of physics exist…
