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[email protected] ohara5.0@mindspring.com is offline
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Default hull speed

OK, I keep telling myslf that someday I'm gonna figger out hull speed
so I ust read a buncha stuff bout it, still makes no sense to me. So
the bow and stern waves merge at hull speed, why cant they just merge
and go past each otther? It'd be the sum of two waves (I s'pose they
arent pure sine waves but something like a damped sine wave).
Does hull speed work the same way for submarines? Could I add
extensions to my sailbaot to increase its hull speed? Maybe
lightweight inflatable extensions?
My gut reaction is there is something wrong with this whole (hull)
idea of whole speed.