Well I see the good jokes are already taken...and very well done I might add.

PT, glad to see you back, and I recognize what you you are saying. There are some things that certainly fit that pattern and perhaps it is the nature of nature to shed a certain type of beauty on everything in relation to its function. Maybe its a beauty that not all can see because we a re tuned to our cultures. I dunno'.....I'm just an idiot.

Tell ya' what though, I've never seen an ugly sailboat that was worth a damn or sailed well and was fast. Beautiful sailboats are generally faster and better than their uglier brethren. Back when 12 Meters raced for the America's Cup, there was a very radical 12 with an odd chopped and blunt stern section, named Mariner. Possibly it was the ugliest 12 ever built and it was dog slow. The designer kept trying to improve it, but you can't make a silk purse..............Most people laid the blame on the awful looking stern section and Ted Turner, who had been sailing this pig, had the best line: "Aw fergodsakes, even a turd is tapered on both ends."

Spaw