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Originally Posted by Brian Duff
"The rig is not there to suit your situation. Quite the opposite. "
I am not saying that you shoud sail across the Atlantic in a Bolger Tortise, but boats should most certainly be built to your requirements, be it budget, cruising grounds, or storage needs, whatever. Just pay attention.
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Hi Brian,
Point taken.Any given boat is a result of a given context, and the contexts vary wonderfully. It would have been more precise for me to say that, for a given context, the rig must be designed to handle the likely extremes of loading within that context, and that it would be risky to try to convince ourselves that those extremes would never happen, in the interests of cutting some corners in order to save money, or time. The boat in question is a cruising boat, and therefore subject to sailing in harm's way, over extended periods, far from any chandlery. The loads are fixed, and therefore to some extent the costs. Neither the rig nor the ocean know or care how much the owner has to spend.
If, on the other hand, that same owner set about looking for a boat that suited a given budget, cruising ground, etc., then we might be talking about a different boat.
Fair leads,
Brion Toss