[seabreeze_97]

Jeff, you can be sooooo snotty sometimes (and the nerve..closing your dissertation with "Respectfully"), it's almost like you're two different people. CCA boats heel, and lengthen their waterlines. Short overhang boats, i.e., non-CCA boats, tend to be newer designs, right? They also tend to be wider, right? They sail faster when heeled less, right? So why would whether they lengthen waterlines when heeled matter, since it would be avoided? Understand, my statement was comparing both designs in optimum position. And I hate to break it to you, but there's plenty newer boats out there that don't pick up anything in waterline when heeled because they have an ass like a doublewide!
Also, I didn't "object" to the 500lb weight example. Granted, that would be too much for smaller boats for obvious reasons, but what I said was your 500lb weight actually improved motion comfort, not worsened it, as you seem to be saying. My recent research into mast design backs up the "slightly heavier mast isn't necessarily a bad thing" mantra, which is a more reasonable version of your 500lb mast weight.
Your two examples of the Comfort Index are not appropriate. The CI was never intended to compare any two boats. It was penned to compare similar boats to each other. Mr. Brewer explains this. You consider the data inaccurate, but you are looking at it as a side-by-side comparison, which is not correct. Comparing boats with 4,000lb difference in weight and 9 FT!!! difference in waterline is not a reasonable comparison. The 44 footer may well have a lower number (implying less comfort), but it would be more comfortable (or at least AS comfortable) as measured by the butt meter. The CI is much more accurate when you, for example, compare something like a 32ft CCA boat with 22ft waterline to something like a new 25 footer with 22ft waterline. Typically, said CCA boat would rank higher because it would be heavier, but the comparison is much more appropriate, mostly due to the waterline of the hulls.
Now, while you believe the CCA rule to be the "antithesis" of what a boat should be, in all my digging, so far, you're the only one I've seen so far who claims such a breadth of knowledge, but has such a distaste for them. We see you vs the likes of Alberg, Luder, Hood, Brewer, etc. Hmmmm. Who should I believe? Now, I'm not saying it's wrong to have an opinion, but me thinks you protest too much.