"John Cairns" wrote in message
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| Yeah, I have been on the ocean, sailing up the stream, in a 47 footer with
a
| LWL of over 40', AND a phrf rating of 54, by all accounts a fast
blue-water
| passage maker and we couldn't average 11 kts. Sure, we could log 12 kts.
| surfing down waves, but we couldn't average 11 kts. Let me clarify that.
In
| our first 24 hour run, we may have had periods where we logged 11 kts.over
| several hours but at the end of the 1st day we hadn't averaged 11
ktsSNIP

Yeah John... I never claimed to average that speed over the entire
passage... I claimed sustained for a duration... which was by the clock to
win a bet.

How about reading for comprehension.... look back on the posts.

CM