You fail again to not only heed your own sermons on wetted surface... but
you seem completely ignorant of the hull designs of either vessels. My
Nordica could outsail your coastal tub of a toy boat even if my vessel was
hove to the entire leg.

CM



"Simple Simon" wrote in message
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| That might be true if SA/DISP was the only parameter.
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| But, you seemed to have forgotten LWL, for example,
| which, on the Westsail is two and a fraction feet more
| than the Nordica resulting in a hull speed more then
| ten percent higher.
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| It just so happens the SA/DISP ratio must be higher on
| the Nordica to overcome all that extra wetted surface and
| drag from aperture, fixed, three-bladed prop, horribly
| inefficient, transom-hung rudder, etc. Therefore, as
| you can easily see any advantage the higher SA/DISP
| confers is negated by the poor design.
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| Since I can beat any Westsail 32, I can also beat a Nordica
| 30 which has a lower hull speed than the Westsail.
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| Next time when you attempt to argue a point be sure to
| not neglect the entire picture while concentrating on one
| point only. I hope this helps.
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| "Jeff Morris" jeffmo@NoSpam-sv-lokiDOTcom wrote in message
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| The Nordica's SA/disp is over 17; the Westsail is only 14.4. You might
have a chance
| against a WetSnail, but not the Nordica.
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| "Simple Simon" wrote in message
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| I can beat a Westsail 32 any day and your heavy full-keeler is
| slower than the average Westsail 32 by a significant amount.
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| My beating Booby's boat is saying nothing at all. Booby's boat
| is probably faster than mine by a teensy margin but since he
| sails only using half his sails he doesn't have a chance even
| against a Seidelman or even the fine vessel depicted in this link:
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http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com...truck_boat_mh1
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| "Capt. Mooron" wrote in message
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| Jeff... don't be drawn into this silly exercise of having Capt. Neal
claim
| he can best your vessel.... he hasn't a prayer of challenging even
me
| successfully and I'm certain your vessel is faster than mine on all
points.
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| I must admit however that he could in all probability easily beat a
C&C 32
| with Bob at the helm... lets allow him that.
|
| CM
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| "Jeff Morris" jeffmo@NoSpam-sv-lokiDOTcom wrote in message
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| | Your local knowledge won't help since I could shorten sail and
follow you
| anywhere. Then
| | I would simply sprint by you at the finish. I suppose if you call
| anything over 8 knots
| | "a blow" you might have a case. Its a good thing you don't sail
up here
| in the Fall.
| |SNIP
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