IMO, a Hobie Cat is on plane....(hell,
sometimes airborne)..when it is making better than hull speed.

Hobies have DEEP Vee hulls, not possible to plane.

IMO, a Hobie Cat is on plane....(hell,
sometimes airborne)..when it is making better than hull speed.

Hobies have DEEP Vee hulls, not possible to plane.


Normally laden, all but a few inches of that
"Deep Vee" is above the waterline.

What's the effective draft of a Hobie Cat, in inches?

One could make a case that the boat is always, (effectively) on plane at least
as easily as a case that it cannot plane at all.

http://www.hobiecat.com/sailing/index.html

The exceptions prove the rule, as always.

utter lack of understanding on your part gould. you are trying to force fit
garbage science into a unified theory of the universe.

IMO, a Hobie Cat is on plane....(hell,
sometimes airborne)..when it is making better than hull speed.

Hobies have DEEP Vee hulls, not possible to plane.


Normally laden, all but a few inches of that
"Deep Vee" is above the waterline.

What's the effective draft of a Hobie Cat, in inches?

One could make a case that the boat is always, (effectively) on plane at
least
as easily as a case that it cannot plane at all.

http://www.hobiecat.com/sailing/index.html

The exceptions prove the rule, as always.

one the hull goes through the wave, what prevents another from forming
just ahead? .... or does one? Is this like breaking the sound
barrier, where one leaves compressability issues behind?

that has *nothing* to do with "climbing the bow wave.