Velocity Vectors

[Brian Duff]

Tom,
Seems you might be getting riled, chill man

I appreciate the links and refernces you shot out earlier in this post, and value your opinions. This is not a competition, but a friendly learning site. I guess cause we have both been around here a while, I josh a bit with you. All in good fun and don't take offense.

and I didn't even flip the page in ' riggers apprentice', midnight games.. oops !

What I was getting at was that we seem to use a lot of 'safety' factors to get things strong enought to deal with the loads we don't know fully, like the force on a chainplate when the boat is going 6.7kts and hits a reef, or whatever. I guess the density of the reef, stiffness of the hull and so may other factors go in which is why it all just gets rounded up.

Good Fun man !