{"id":11760,"date":"2019-11-15T08:19:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T15:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/?page_id=11760"},"modified":"2023-03-09T05:07:51","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T12:07:51","slug":"peter-matthiesen-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/columns\/peter-the-market\/aries\/peter-matthiesen-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Matthiesen 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Oberlehrer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2056\" height=\"620\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Oberlehrer.jpg 2056w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Oberlehrer-300x90.jpg 300w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Oberlehrer-1024x309.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Oberlehrer-768x232.jpg 768w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Oberlehrer-1536x463.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Oberlehrer-2048x618.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2056px) 100vw, 2056px\" \/><br \/>\nBACK TO THE FUTURE<br \/>\nI thought this business might finally have been put to bed once and for all after the Windvane Report, but apparently not. Did someone make a resolution last week about flogging a dead horse one more time or might there be pressure coming to bear from somewhere else? Either way, Peter Matthiessen just decided to add a comment to this blog I published more than three years ago. He says:<br \/>\n\u2028<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/IMG_0187-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-12774\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>You say you could not read Nicks letter. Well I dont blame you, its not easy.<br \/>\nThe most important point in the letter from Nick Franklin to me is the following:<\/p>\n<p>You have made a grand job of criticising the old type Aries where the servo rudder sways up to vertical. I bet the other manufacturers hate this but it is absolutely true.<br \/>\nWell done Peter. Sincerely Nick<\/p>\n<p>So I think that we now can conclude that I was NOT inventing this as you have claimed all these years. Then you ask me to explain the bad weather problem. Are you joking? Of course you understand it. I know you read every comma on my www where I had drawings and all.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it beats me why you are so interested in this bad weather problem. For my part it is quite normal to explain improvements from the old Aries design to the new Aries design. Not? This 2. Aries was stopped because of this problem. I know you have other ideas \/ theories. I just copy\/paste what Nick Franklin told me.<br \/>\nI saw some pictures you have made explaining the bad weather problem. It has NOTHING to do with a knock-down. If you did not understand my explanation on my www, you never will.<\/p>\n<p>Oh no, this is endless. I did not invent anything, I have proven that. Tell whatever you like, over and out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My reply:<br \/>\nPeter Matthiessen no longer owns Aries, so it isn&#8217;t immediately obvious why the Bad Weather Problem (and its stubborn refusal to manifest itself in the real world \u2013 see, for example, the Windvane Report) should still be any concern of his. Perhaps he has come under pressure from Lean Nelis, who bought the company from him eight years ago. I don\u2019t know how much faith Nelis had in the Bad Weather Problem, but he may well be feeling a measure of disappointment by now if he was expecting it to help drive Aries sales.<br \/>\nI must add that it pains me to see Nick Franklin\u2019s name being dragged into this again. It is beyond disrespectful to attribute this or that intention to the man on the basis of a few partially illegible lines in a personal letter when he is no longer here to speak for himself.<br \/>\nOver and out \u2013 hopefully!<br \/>\n09.01.2023<br \/>\nPeter Foerthmann<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Picnic-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Picnic-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Picnic-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Picnic-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Picnic.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Windpilot-Books-red.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"109\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Windpilot-Books-red.jpg 613w, https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Windpilot-Books-red-300x53.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A PRIVAT LESSON<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Oberlehrer-low.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2196\" height=\"1596\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20843\" \/>It took me about 18 years to realise that the tale being told (by the then-owner of a brand that had once embodied the state of the art in windvane self-steering systems) really was starting to plant questions in the mind of sailors.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBad Weather Problem\u201d was invented in 1997. I did cover it in my books, but not in any great detail because I regarded it as just a bit of marketing fluff and not at all something to be taken seriously. I trusted that smart sailors would weigh up the hypotheses for themselves and recognise them for the nonsense they were.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_4695-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20846\" \/>A letter from Helen Franklin (daughter of Aries creator Nick Franklin) in 2015 prompted me to think again: was it possible, after all, that despite being no more than a figment of a young Dane\u2019s imagination, the tale of the Bad Weather Problem was actually helping to convince sailors that the Aries was the best option for them? I\u2019ve set out the details before:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"FGBJvqM00e\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/columns\/peter-the-market\/aries\/aries-the-bad-weather-problem-no-basis-in-fact\/\">Bad weather problem<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Bad weather problem&#8221; &#8212; Windpilot Blog EN\" src=\"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/columns\/peter-the-market\/aries\/aries-the-bad-weather-problem-no-basis-in-fact\/embed\/#?secret=WLCEoPTDJY#?secret=FGBJvqM00e\" data-secret=\"FGBJvqM00e\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today, some four years after the above article first appeared on the blog, the following comment landed from Brazil:<\/p>\n<p>14.11.2019 Peter Matthiesen, ex-Eigent\u00fcmer der Marke Aries:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Peter F\u00f6rthmann. One on my employees in my company here in Brazil, looked me up on google just for curious. He found your blog. Well. As you and me both know (and not many else, I guess) you failed completely in your resent lawyer attack on me regarding the bad weather problem. I gave you hard proof that this is real and thats why you ran away from me like a frightened cat. Maybe you should be honest enough now to admit that you have failed and if this is too hard for you, at least to stop spreading your lies. I dont expect tat you will publish this but I know that you will read it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My reply<br \/>\nHi Peter, perhaps reading of the wind vane report might be the lesson you may need to get some hints of understanding about your findings of some 20 years ago. Alternatively take this as invitation to explain in your own words about your considerations, rather than referring to a handwritten letter of Nick Franklin ( enclosed herewith ) who passed away in 2010, a letter even his own daughter failed to understand. Stage is yours \u2026<br \/>\nHamburg 14.11.2019<br \/>\nPeter Foerthmann<\/p>\n<p>EPILOG<br \/>\nRegarding the lawyers, as regular readers of my blog will know, I have a long history of winning tortuous and expensive legal cases. My younger self was quite certain justice was worth the distraction, the stress and the (sometimes severe) financial pain. Whether my older and theoretically wiser self shares this view I\u2019m not sure. The thing is, I don\u2019t have to be sure: these days I have much more forceful advisors \u2013 including one particularly close to home \u2013 and it would take something really extreme to convince her another trip to court was worth the effort!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BACK TO THE FUTURE I thought this business might finally have been put to bed once and for all after the Windvane Report, but apparently not. 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