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Monkey Butler Monkey Butler is offline
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Default Actively variable deadrise

On Mar 22, 12:26*am, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:00:36 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch

wrote:
why does a boat make a stern wave?


Not very scientific but I view it as sort of a rebound effect as the
water that has been displaced downward by passage of the hull, now
springs back up behind the boat and overshoots the surface due to
inertia.