CHRISTIAN BECKER
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýI do not know who Mary is but she will have to get
in line.
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My sister who died of cancer a few years ago sailed
with Rod a few times and was deeply in love with him. I know now that they are
in heaven sailing what in our family is referred to a Swan 65. I am sure that
there are many others in the line here on earth now too.
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He was a great person in many ways. It is great
that we have this document and some of the others concerning S&S as well,
not just Tartan 27 owners but the world of sailing. He brought so much common
sense to sailing and life. His of % and other calculations are too base and too
good not to make a standard.
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There are some other designers that use the result
of a simple formula to come up with an index number for a give boat. With that
index number, many aspects of the design and size/engineering work is based. I
have done some work based on some of the good design books of our day. When you
see some of the common base line things, you can see why one can use a simple
result for the base line for many parts of the design process for a given boat.
David Geer seems to have that index down, very well.
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We owe a lot to Rod and one sees it often. Keep him
in your prayers.
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Peace,
Chris Becker
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