"If you did manage to produce enough power, could you power through the
bow wave
and thus produce a shock wave?"

If you did, you would be on plane, traveling over the water for the most
part, and leaving any remnant of a bow wave behind the boat. Any relation
of this phenomena to a sonic or acoustical shock wave is only academic,
since the speed of sound in water is about 5 times faster than air, so it
isn't likely that there will ever be a watercraft moving at 3500mph.

"Floyd" wrote in message
...
"If you did manage to produce enough power, could you power through the
bow wave
and thus produce a shock wave?"

If you did, you would be on plane, traveling over the water for the most
part, and leaving any remnant of a bow wave behind the boat. Any relation
of this phenomena to a sonic or acoustical shock wave is only academic,
since the speed of sound in water is about 5 times faster than air, so it
isn't likely that there will ever be a watercraft moving at 3500mph.




I believe Skipper claimed his Bayliner came close to that speed at WOT once
while on the Sea of Cortez trying to outrun a giant Tostito. ;-)

JimH wrote:
I believe Skipper claimed his Bayliner came close to that speed at WOT once
while on the Sea of Cortez trying to outrun a giant Tostito. ;-)



tostito as in a giant corn based chip? how is that possible? was it
carrying any added dip or guacamole?

"DownTime" wrote in message
.. .
JimH wrote:
I believe Skipper claimed his Bayliner came close to that speed at WOT
once while on the Sea of Cortez trying to outrun a giant Tostito. ;-)

tostito as in a giant corn based chip? how is that possible? was it
carrying any added dip or guacamole?


Yes........in 55 gallon drums strapped onto the deck.

JimH wrote:
"Floyd" wrote in message
...

"If you did manage to produce enough power, could you power through the
bow wave
and thus produce a shock wave?"

If you did, you would be on plane, traveling over the water for the most
part, and leaving any remnant of a bow wave behind the boat. Any relation
of this phenomena to a sonic or acoustical shock wave is only academic,
since the speed of sound in water is about 5 times faster than air, so it
isn't likely that there will ever be a watercraft moving at 3500mph.





I believe Skipper claimed his Bayliner came close to that speed at WOT once
while on the Sea of Cortez trying to outrun a giant Tostito. ;-)



Skipper *is* a giant Tostito!

My impression is that a planing hull has no relation to hull speed.
Furthermore, we are not talking about the speed of compressional waves
as in sound but the much slower surface waves.

Don White wrote:

JimH wrote:

"Floyd" wrote in message
...

"If you did manage to produce enough power, could you power through
the bow wave
and thus produce a shock wave?"

If you did, you would be on plane, traveling over the water for the
most part, and leaving any remnant of a bow wave behind the boat.
Any relation of this phenomena to a sonic or acoustical shock wave is
only academic, since the speed of sound in water is about 5 times
faster than air, so it isn't likely that there will ever be a
watercraft moving at 3500mph.





I believe Skipper claimed his Bayliner came close to that speed at WOT
once while on the Sea of Cortez trying to outrun a giant Tostito. ;-)



Skipper *is* a giant Tostito!

Come on, Don. I know you can do better than that!

Dan

Dan Krueger wrote:
Don White wrote:

JimH wrote:

"Floyd" wrote in message
...

"If you did manage to produce enough power, could you power through
the bow wave
and thus produce a shock wave?"

If you did, you would be on plane, traveling over the water for the
most part, and leaving any remnant of a bow wave behind the boat.
Any relation of this phenomena to a sonic or acoustical shock wave
is only academic, since the speed of sound in water is about 5 times
faster than air, so it isn't likely that there will ever be a
watercraft moving at 3500mph.





I believe Skipper claimed his Bayliner came close to that speed at
WOT once while on the Sea of Cortez trying to outrun a giant
Tostito. ;-)




Skipper *is* a giant Tostito!


Come on, Don. I know you can do better than that!

Dan

Did I see you on 'Most Haunted' tonight?

Don White wrote:

Dan Krueger wrote:

Don White wrote:

JimH wrote:

"Floyd" wrote in message
...

"If you did manage to produce enough power, could you power through
the bow wave
and thus produce a shock wave?"

If you did, you would be on plane, traveling over the water for the
most part, and leaving any remnant of a bow wave behind the boat.
Any relation of this phenomena to a sonic or acoustical shock wave
is only academic, since the speed of sound in water is about 5
times faster than air, so it isn't likely that there will ever be a
watercraft moving at 3500mph.





I believe Skipper claimed his Bayliner came close to that speed at
WOT once while on the Sea of Cortez trying to outrun a giant
Tostito. ;-)





Skipper *is* a giant Tostito!



Come on, Don. I know you can do better than that!

Dan


Did I see you on 'Most Haunted' tonight?

I don't watch Nickelodeon.

Dan

3721 mph, but that would be in a submarine, not on the surface, at sea
level, the nasa standard table puts SOS at sea level in daytime at
761mph...so that is what a surface vessel would have to achieve to
break the sound barrier; even a displacement hull is still floating on
the surface of th water, so it wold be subject to gas physics.A boat on
the surface is exerting a fixed force on the water (in a perfect
world), this force remains more or less constant, varying onle due to
lift and loss of it while moving, this will not generate a fast enough
shock wave through water to cause a "sonic boom"