Turd analogies are just so preposterous......I love 'em!

Back in the mid 70's Ted Turner took a new 12 Meter out for testing name Mariner. This was one of the ugliest Twelves ever built and as is so often true, beauty is speed and ugly is slow and Mariner was dog slow. It had a fair bow but the stern was cutoff square with a trasom alost 90 degrees to the waterline. The designer went into long explanations about the design and how it would just take a little work to get it up to speed.

Turner put in a lot of work and the thing just got slower. Turner went off on the designer and the boat screaming at a press conference that, "Even a turd is tapered at both ends!"

Spaw