"Joe" wrote
good suggestion for a planing hull, bad bad ideal for a non-planning
hull, drag would have you pitch poling right away.


I don't think so, Joe. What's planing and what's non-planing? It's only so on
a horizontal surface. On tilted water it has no meaning. A sailboat hull can't plane
on flat water. There's not enough power in the engine or sails to make it go fast
enough. But it can when it's going downhill when the hill's steep enough. Gravity gives
you enough power. Your boat would be able to break out of the wave train it makes.
The reason is because the front of the bow wave is almost horizontal on a steep hill
of water instead of being too steep to get up like it is on horizontal water.
What do you think?

Cheers,
Ellen