Forum A-Holes..................

Is it me? In my vintage years have I morphed into a defensive, critical old fart? Hope not! let me start from the beginning: I subscribe to a number of online sailing forums as many of you probably do too. Alot of this information is useful, valuable, and well intentioned..however.....sometimes..... you encounter the "Know It All Forum A-Hole" who finds some kind of sick pleasure in attacking. A coupla of weeks ago I sent a query into one of these sailing forms asking if anyone knew the cost of bottled water in the Bahamas.....I didn't go into the fact that I can't afford a water maker and that I would have to supplement my meager H2O tanks with either jugged or bottled water.....all I did was post a inquiry....Well, the first reply was something to the affect that "people like you make me sick....trashing our environment with plastic bottles and polluting our beaches and waterways .....yada....yada...ya" this guy rambles on! Whats this all about? I thought. I'm a card carrying environmentalist.....I don't pollute.....I pick up other peoples crap!  Anyways, Only one guy answered the question. The other dozen or so counseled me on how I am not doing this right and I should do this or that...... Oh by the way ...the guy who led the attack....is a power boater on a 46' or 48' Defever which probably burns 20 gallons an hour at cruise......and adds unmeasurable fuel to atmospheric pollution as well as helping deplete oil reserves at an accelerated rate.....that boat is a seagoing Hummer I...........so much for this guys contribution to a green planet.  Ah well-I blew this off and probably won't do much with this forum. Down the road a ways, I'm on another one of these forums and some guy is blabbering about how my boat the Westsail 28 is the second worst designed boat in naval architecture!!!! and that it really was not designed by a naval architect at all. It was carved out of a Westsail 32 mold.....supposedly Westsail just cut 4 feet from the center of the W32 mold and stuck it all back together and Walla!! the W28 is born.  He didn't get into explaining how the differences in beam, draft, sheerline, etc came about!  Just another example of how anybody can put anything on the Internet. But I'm sure there are people out there repeating this nonsense. A number of the W28's have circumnavigated and many others have completed substantial offshore voyages....so if you hear this story about the W28, don't believe it......it's "Forum Know-It-All" drivel.  Oh! you wanna know according to this guy what the #1 worst designed boat is?  According to him its a MacGregor 26........hmmm.....I seem to recall a lady down in the Florida Keys who sails a MacG 26 all over the place......Marquesas, Dry Tortugas, offshore in the Gulf Stream and has video of these trips all over You Tube and, to me, the boat looks to be doing great......but then again I'm not a Forum Expert.......

SVZOSHA

Second worse boat design in history my A__ __!!! 
Take care my friends.........