On Mar 29, 7:50*am, Bruce wrote:
I'd take the accident part with a pinch of salt. They may have been pleasantly
surprised, but what I know of those two involves many years of meticulous
research and testing. Luck often plays a role, but like Edison and the lightbulb
there is a lot of plain hard work behind the "chance" discovery.

But yes the JS1 climbs well, and runs (exceptionally) well, and in the hands of
one of the Jonkers is hard to beat.

Yeah, "by accident" was a poor choice of words (though the original
poster, iirc, implied that the Jonkers were interested in Boerman's
lecture as it provided an explanation for what they'd found). The JS1
looks very impressive and I wonder if it will become the "Diana 2 of
the 18 m Class".