Re: Annoying pedantry - @EvilAuditor
George Buehler, one of the gods of wooden boat builders, distinguishes little big boats and big little boats. You are describing big little boats (i.e. overstretched with scantlings and rigging dimensions intended for smaller boats). Buehler's preference is for little big boats, i.e. you make your money go further by building a smaller version of a big boat but with the scantlings of the big boat.
His point is that if you want a little big boat you have more or less to make it yourself because that isn't where the mug spends his dollars. But when you hit a rock you live to tell people about it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
