Originally Posted by
Composite Specialties
The reason that no one here in the USA wants to "get back to work" on boat designs is because everyone here is a critic! At any given Title Series race, there are at least 5 boat experts walking around talking crap about all the boats, designs and the builders. Then you have engine dealers that claim to be boat experts that spout off their opinions and people seem to listen..... go figure. There have been a small handful that actually tried to develop Euro designs from scratch, without the luxury of having one to copy first hand. It takes an enormous amount of money and time to develop these boats from scratch, test them, redevelop, etc....
So you tell me, why would anyone want to put any time, money and effort into getting back to work to develop boats for PRO racing only to be confronted with this crap at every race. Support and encouragement goes along way with anything in life... if you want people to devote their time and money into development of racing boat designs, then teach people to stop trashing the boat builders and their designs and show some support for the very few in the country that are left to actually build racing boats.
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