GRF's rig school

Clean

polite ?

We all know what we ******* well mean ! 

Yes asterix, I am the same Clean. GRF recently began polluting SA with
his weak blend of trollishness and I vaguely remembered him from here,
so I popped over for a look on Y&Y, which
I do every few months - it seems to hold quite a few Anarchists as well as
the many washed masses that prefer to play in a UK playground that is a
bit more "p**fter" than my own haunt.

Alstorer: I'd have to say that GRF seems extremely similar to our recently
banished Lord, though perhaps without serious bipolarism driving the
train, more of a narcissistic personality disorder (something I know a lot
about...). Lordishness in his extreme condescension about subjects that
he knows a lot about technically, though not a lot about practically.
Unwillingness to offer deference or respect to those that actually have the
time and experience in hand. Iconoclasty without alternatives, that kind
of thing. Does he have "pet names" for people too?

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Originally posted by hollandsd yeah....andrewst on here is dumb and i  am dumberer, he also has names for other members of the club

Nice. And I'm guessing he has never won anything in a dinghy ever. Are
there any pics of GRF sailing?

Well Class, I see we have some visitors.

European business men and Colonial just out of high school kids...

So, 1st off, point taken on the t*t for tat put down from Luca, interesting, I
trust you didn't get North to develop the rig then use a Margin Builder like
Hyde to produce it, and I do hope they didn't just use their normal cheap
contract battens. North wouldn't have, they do know their stuff, you UK
boys better go check inside a batten pockets before I get to see one or
there will be more criticism.

Now, this bit intrigued me, tell me now, wasn't this just what I was
suggesting a couple of posts back

Originally posted by devotiluca .....so you end up designing sails with realtively more luff curve than broad seeming than normal , because tha mast by deflecting will automatically flatten the sail...and get you the desired twist.that is really the fine art of making a rig for a sitting out singlehander...

Same technique we use more or less, so we are on common ground after
all.

But interesting to read the whys and hows of why he took that route.

Far better technique I find than drawn out personal character
assassination.

But I do wonder how much help they got from Larry Herbig's (North Sail
Designer)work on reverse engineering a sailmaking software programme
that turned the result of those wind tunnel tests, into panel shapes that
could be cut and assembled when was that now 97? 98..


And what about that 'dude' from SA, he's missing Doug Lord so much
(they banned Doug Lord because someone with an opinion worth
listening to told them they must or he would leave) so now he needs
someone else to demonise. Since I had the temerity to hold a poll on their
board canvassing opinion and taking one of their resident foil divas to
task for arrogance..

Narcissistic personality disorder? Sunshine you do not know the
half of it...

I've seen my maker, nothing on this earth worries me...

Edited by G.R.F.

Hi Clean - keep up the OTWA live stuff :-)

what are your plans for covering the AC? - you'll need a faster boat!

btw someone else masquarades as asterix on SA, for me you need to seek out menhir deliveries

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