V Twin

Rockhopper - I agree but please do remember mr Grumpy is the guy sl*gging all the other fleets..... He can cope with a bit of light hearted sl*gging in his direction. He will be sitting at Grumpy towers laughing at all the posts anyway. Anyway We are all hoping to get the 15% early adopters reduction rate if the v twin becomes the new hottest thing out.....then that will help the 2nd hand markets for 100's and Musto Skiffs...by the way I am being a touch sarcastic.

Who really cares what graeme has spent on i for one dont give a monkeys so good luck to the guy for having the balls to do it in the first place and some of you on this forum need to grow up a bit and sit back just chill out and stop moaning and bigging up your own fleet

can't we just put carbon tusks on the wooly mammoth and paint the sabretooth tiger's lips pink to hide the nastiness behind them?  Seems to work for most folks in dinghyland...

Folks,

I don't know how much Graeme has spent on the V Twin to date and it is none of my business. I do reckon, though, that it would be less than a new shiny, much the same as the last one verse chorus verse Merlin Rocket. Relative performance aside, I know which one Graeme is happier to own.
I am pretty sure that if he wanted to beat his clone around the course in a Musto Skiff, he could have done it far more cheaply by hiring Sten for a fortnight and heading down to Mar Menor for some intensive warm water 1 on 1 coaching, followed up by nightly tours of la Manga strip. That isn't the point though.
Graeme is one of those people who has to find out for himself.
90% of the time his ideas may be flawed, but 10% may be winners.
Without people like Graeme, we would all still be living in caves. Never mind that most of Graeme's sort historically have been eaten by the sabre tooth tigers or run through on the tusk of a wooly mammoth.
Apart from clinging to the tails of whoever dared to exit the cave, we are as different from Neanderthals as we are due in no small part to evolution - the genetic mutations that prove to increase our uitility, and thus attraction to a mate. Every now and then a big step happens - sometimes this proliferates, sometimes it doesn't. The same applies to design.

Whilst there is no doubt that Graeme is a raving narcissist, what is the point in slandering his project publically? Plenty of people on this forum love to see it progress - I would say to those haters out there that Graeme is scratching his itches publically and expensively (dodging the sabre tooths and mammoths, so to speak) so that you don't have to. Regardless of how your doubtless incredible engineering brains percieve how well Graeme has met his intent, you owe him a debt of gratitude for sharing candidly.

Remember blinky the 3 eyed fish from the Simpsons?!

he's not rick... you stupid old fool!