Good Video of Sailboat Going Almost 60 knots (about 70 mph)
 

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On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:50:13 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:29:04 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:00:38 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...v=wnjyusAgk8I#

Wind speed was reported at 20 to 25 knots.

It is impossible to sail faster than the wind.

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Not so. Wind surfers do it all the time, as do lightweight multi
hulls. Ice boats have been doing it for 100 years.

More correctly stated, it is impossible to sail faster than the wind
in a dead down wind direction, at least on the water. A team of
engineers recently managed to sail faster than the wind, dead down
wind, in a specially designed land sailor on salt flats.

It's all about the addition of force vectors.

Any particular reason you edited out the second sentence, thereby
negating the entire meaning of the post?

And the little pony boy runs off down the same blind alley.

No generous way to interpret their lack of understanding.
It was clear to me.
Being "most" generous, I just saw it as a double "whoosh."

Scotty is just plain dumb, when will you learn that?!

Good Video of Sailboat Going Almost 60 knots (about 70 mph)
 

On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 08:51:49 -0500, iBoaterer wrote:

Any particular reason you edited out the second sentence, thereby
negating the entire meaning of the post?

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Your humor was just too subtle for me.

Good Video of Sailboat Going Almost 60 knots (about 70 mph)
 

On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 08:58:52 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 08:51:49 -0500, iBoaterer wrote:

Any particular reason you edited out the second sentence, thereby
negating the entire meaning of the post?

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Your humor was just too subtle for me.

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With apologies to iBoater, yes I know that was not your post that I
responded to.