"Floyd" wrote in message
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"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. ;-)