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Re: Seeking: Why free plans only?
By:MattGeerts
Date: 9/10/2014, 6:11 pm
In Response To: Re: Seeking: Why free plans only? (JohnAbercrombie)

Thanks for the input, John.

Looking at reviews is most definitely not an exact science. I guess I should say that when I google for info no various boats I tend to "meta data" the reviews. That is, look at the frequency of builds, the recommendations for particular designs, the frequency of people rebuilding the same design, the comments comparing to their previous commercial designs, etc. Through all of these factors one can get an idea of whether a design is reliable - but cannot necessarily rule out design being reliable.

I hope that nobody got the impression that I was saying that paid designs are not reliable - I was just playing devil's advocate against the two old tired arguments for paying designers.

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Seeking: Why free plans only?
Jeff Horton -- 12/20/2013, 7:09 am
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ddaniels -- 12/20/2013, 7:45 am
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Jay Babina -- 12/20/2013, 9:57 am
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Jeff Horton -- 12/20/2013, 11:28 am
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Noel Bennett -- 12/20/2013, 8:48 pm
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John Messinger -- 12/20/2013, 5:38 pm
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george jung -- 12/20/2013, 10:33 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 12/20/2013, 11:19 pm
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Bryan Hansel -- 12/24/2013, 1:26 am
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Bill Hamm -- 12/25/2013, 12:22 am
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Bryan Hansel -- 12/25/2013, 9:42 am
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Andy Waddington -- 1/8/2014, 7:01 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 1/8/2014, 11:26 pm
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Andy Waddington -- 1/9/2014, 4:51 am
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ancient kayaker -- 1/9/2014, 10:48 am
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Andy Waddington -- 1/10/2014, 1:04 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 1/11/2014, 11:16 pm
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Andy Waddington -- 1/12/2014, 3:06 pm
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MattGeerts -- 9/10/2014, 4:55 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 9/10/2014, 5:20 pm
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MattGeerts -- 9/10/2014, 6:11 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 9/10/2014, 9:54 pm
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MattGeerts -- 9/11/2014, 12:48 pm
Is "giving" bad or suspicious?
Jay Babina -- 9/11/2014, 10:51 am
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Mike Bielski -- 9/11/2014, 11:19 am
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Christopher Crowhurst -- 9/11/2014, 1:53 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 9/11/2014, 6:37 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 9/16/2014, 1:27 pm
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scottbaxter -- 9/11/2014, 8:17 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 9/11/2014, 9:38 pm
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scottbaxter -- 9/11/2014, 10:39 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 9/12/2014, 12:40 am
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Christopher Crowhurst -- 9/12/2014, 8:06 am
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Kurt Maurer -- 9/13/2014, 10:33 am
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Daniel Thaler -- 9/11/2014, 1:06 pm