Dinghy Show 2017

I have read quite a bit of this thread and flabbergasted that such a poisonous person is tolerated on this forum. If you don't have a positive contribution just shut up you sad little man.

Please don't let him put you off.

Grumph is a troll, in the modern vernacular, although Golem would be a better metaphor. And yes, he is little.

He is a sailboard pioneer and legend from its early days, he tells us (constantly), migrated to dinghies a few years ago but simply does not understand how a sailing dinghy works. 

Without his crass provocativeness, there would be virtually nothing to read on this forum, although he's almost certainly also driven a few participants away as he seeks diversions from the boredom of his shop.

There are two recommended approaches with iGRF - one is the "never argue with idiots, they drag you down to their level and beat you on experience" angle. After all, it's just attention-seeking behaviour, best ignored, otherwise you just encourage it.

The other, if you want some entertainment and have some time, is to string him along like you might a 419 Nigerian e-mail scammer. The best bit with the latter is that everyone else can see it and is enjoying themselves laughing at him but our resident Golem posts on, digging his hole deeper and deeper.

Some of his classics include theories...

- that phantoms got faster because sandwich construction made the hulls wider and bigger (er, no the measurements are taken from the outside, not the inside of the hull), 

- that Lasers are faster on salt-water (or is it fresh) because the salinity makes them float differently (like everything else then, but to an extent that is totally irrelevant in the context of all the other variables) and 

- that Portsmouth Yardsticks are a conspiracy against him personally, managed by people locked in smoke-filled rooms, not a statistical number crunching data with faults, but objective faults at least. His resolution of course, ignoring all provided references to the disastrous history of such schemes, is for his own set of rating rules, determined by, um, someone sitting in a smoke-filled room. This demonstrates not only a blindness to the irony of it but also a complete lack of understanding of the complexities of what makes a boat go, or not, in a particular circumstance and of the law of unintended consequences.

This post is of course likely to result in me getting an ad-hominim flaming in return, but, uniquely, I did sort of start it this time.

So hang in here and just laugh at the crassness. It can be both fun and thought-provoking on here.

Final thought, be warned that, in tribute to Godwin's Law, virtually every discussion on here does end up hijacked to the subject of Portsmouth Numbers