maybe you were in hard water ; )
Scout

"FamilySailor" wrote in message
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They were hanging limp alright. For quite a while. We would get an
immeasurable puff every now and then. I'm not too worried about convincing
you. I was there. You believing me or not changes nothing. What is, is
what
is and what we did is what we did...
;-)
Winds were below 1 knot and we were making headway. I used the 0.1 knot
just
as a number to post for my example. Oh, and the friction of the water
against the hull in nonexistant (zero), until the hull starts to move,
then
you have friction. So as we moved along slowly the friction slowed us as
it
always does with all boats. But, unless the water is moving against the
forward motion of the hull, or is frozen solid, it will not hold your boat
stationary. That was a good one! Fluid motionless water holding a sailboat
stationary.......