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From: Ari Saarto <asaarto_at_lpt.fi>
subject: [Paddlewise] Back to basics
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 23:23:18 +0000
Dear anglo-saxons & yankees,

is there anywhere a list, a web page in the net, which would help a 
Frustrated Finn to compare knots to metres/second or to 
kilometres/hour?

Unfortunately, I am getting confused quite often, having been 
used to metric system.  Happens both ways, Iīve noticed...

Same thing with miles:  fortunately I did not sleep during ALL my
primary or secondary school lessons, I suppose it goes with
feet like this: 1 ft = 33 centimetres & with inches itīs 1' = 2,5 
centimetres....


Cheers,


Ari Saarto
"Careful with your hips 
- a good sea kayaker 
is a worthy partner in samba too..." 

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From: Mark Zen <canoeist_at_netbox.com>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Back to basics
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:42:24 -0700 (MST)
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Ari Saarto wrote:

>>
>>Dear anglo-saxons & yankees,
>>
>>is there anywhere a list, a web page in the net, which would help a 
>>Frustrated Finn to compare knots to metres/second or to 
>>kilometres/hour?

i can't even convert knots to miles/hour!!

>>
>>Unfortunately, I am getting confused quite often, having been 
>>used to metric system.  Happens both ways, Iīve noticed...
>>
>>Same thing with miles:  fortunately I did not sleep during ALL my
>>primary or secondary school lessons, I suppose it goes with
>>feet like this: 1 ft = 33 centimetres & with inches itīs 1' = 2,5 
>>centimetres....


inches 1" = 2,5cm [we use the single quote for feet]

example: i am 1,8m tall or 6'0" [6ft 0in] 
and closer to 30cm = 1'
as there are 39.?"/1m
and of course, we use a "." where you use a ","!!

NE?s

[sorry had to do that, pronounced "any questions"]

you do well ari, i _try_ to list the metric equivelants when i make
statements like, i have a 16' [4,8m] solo canoe [do you also call them
"canadianne canoe" like the british??]

mark

>>
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>
>>Ari Saarto
>>"Careful with your hips 
>>- a good sea kayaker 
>>is a worthy partner in samba too..." 
>>
>>Finland - Europe
>>GSM +358 - 50 - 526 5892
>>fax. +358 - 3 - 828 2815
>>e-mail: asaarto_at_lpt.fi


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From: BRADFORD R. CRAIN <brad_at_mth.pdx.edu>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Back to basics
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:54:41 +0000
     Never heard of the metric system. Must be some Newt Gingrich 
Republican constipation.	
> From:          "Ari Saarto" <asaarto_at_lpt.fi>
> Organization:  lpt.fi
> To:            Paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net
> Date:          Wed, 11 Mar 1998 23:23:18 +0000
> Subject:       [Paddlewise] Back to basics
> Reply-to:      asaarto_at_lpt.fi

> Dear anglo-saxons & yankees,
> 
> is there anywhere a list, a web page in the net, which would help a 
> Frustrated Finn to compare knots to metres/second or to 
> kilometres/hour?
> 
> Unfortunately, I am getting confused quite often, having been 
> used to metric system.  Happens both ways, I've noticed...
> 
> Same thing with miles:  fortunately I did not sleep during ALL my
> primary or secondary school lessons, I suppose it goes with
> feet like this: 1 ft = 33 centimetres & with inches it's 1' = 2,5 
> centimetres....
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Ari Saarto
> "Careful with your hips 
> - a good sea kayaker 
> is a worthy partner in samba too..." 
> 
> Finland - Europe
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> fax. +358 - 3 - 828 2815
> e-mail: asaarto_at_lpt.fi
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From: Les Uhrich <luhrich_at_ctc.ctc.edu>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Back to basics
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:23:15 -0800
At 11:23 PM 3/11/98 +0000, Ari Saarto wrote:
>is there anywhere a list, a web page in the net, which would help a 
>Frustrated Finn to compare knots to metres/second or to 
>kilometres/hour?

The defining link to the metric (SI) system of length measurements is this:

1 inch = 2.54 cm    defined to be exact

in fact, the (stupid) english (or american standard) system is now defined
in terms of the metric (read: much more useful) system.

To convert: from any english system to any metric system, or vice versa,
use the relationships above (and a few math skills).

To convert from the nautical system, which is based on the distance between
lines on the earth (60 Nautical Miles = the distance between the latitude
lines on the earth drawn 1 degree apart). There are 90 degrees of latitude
between the earth's Equator and the True North Pole. Now, the radius of the
earth is 6,370, 000 meters and 1/4 of the circumference (2 Pi times the
diameter)  is .25 x 2 x 3.141592654 x 6,370,000 =10,005,972.6 metres. Ok,
now divide this by 90 and get 111177.4734.  Now divide this by 60 to get
1853  meters (1.85 km) per Nautical mile.  

Oh, hell, I have been in the clkassroom way too long.





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From: James Lofton <n5yyx_at_etsc.net>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Back to basics
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 15:48:35 -0800
Ari Saarto wrote:
> 
> Dear anglo-saxons & yankees,
> 
> is there anywhere a list, a web page in the net, which would help a
> Frustrated Finn to compare knots to metres/second or to
> kilometres/hour?
> 
> Unfortunately, I am getting confused quite often, having been
> used to metric system.  Happens both ways, Iīve noticed...
> 
> Same thing with miles:  fortunately I did not sleep during ALL my
> primary or secondary school lessons, I suppose it goes with
> feet like this: 1 ft = 33 centimetres & with inches itīs 1' = 2,5
> centimetres....
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ari Saarto
> "Careful with your hips
> - a good sea kayaker
> is a worthy partner in samba too..."
> 
> Finland - Europe
> GSM +358 - 50 - 526 5892
> fax. +358 - 3 - 828 2815
> e-mail: asaarto_at_lpt.fi
> 

I carry a small HP 100LX, palm top computer everywhere with me. If I have 
a problem with something, I ask it. If it don't have the answer, I figure 
I don't need to know! :>)

PS I used to carry extra gas with me in Canada for that very reason.

later

James

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From: R. Walker <rww_at_mailbox.neosoft.com>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Back to basics
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:51:16 +0000
> is there anywhere a list, a web page in the net, which would help a 
> Frustrated Finn to compare knots to metres/second or to 
> kilometres/hour?

1 knot = 1.852 km/hr = 0.5144 m/sec
1 km/hr = .2778 m/sec = 0.53996 knots
1 m/sec = 1.9438 knots = 3.6 km/hr

1 km = 0.6214 miles = = 0.53996 naut miles 
= 4.971 furlong = 6.684585813 x 10(-9) AU

have fun.


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From: Ari Saarto <asaarto_at_lpt.fi>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Back to basics
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 08:30:04 +0000
Thank You all - the Paddlewise did work quite fast with this one!

Now all I do need is a laptop when maybe trying something 
someday along your coastal line: think about weather brodcasts :-p

(Alas,  those French, they wanted so badly to set a line between 
Europeans and uppity Yankees  - and maybe they were not having very 
specially close & warm relations to the Brits at the 1800īs...)

Somebody should ask Mr. Gingrich what is a metric system - 
 it might arouse some interesting subjects of conversation ;-)
Ari Saarto
"Donīt praise my English - I do start sllippinggn" 
Kannaksenkatu 22 / P.O. 92
15141 Lahti - Finland - Europe
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From: John Winters <735769_at_ican.net>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Back to basics
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 07:42:38 -0500
Ari wrote:

(SNIP about conversion - units rather than religous))

Here in Canada we are expected to be fluent in two languages (never know
that from my French) as well as two measurement systems plus must be able
to spell in two versions of English (Americans don't use enough "u's").
Worst of all, we have to understand two interrogative grunts ("Eh" and
"Huh").  Any wonder we are so screwed up. By the time we figure out what is
going on it is too late.

Some one will surely have supplied the proper conversion factors but most
of the me one doesn't much care about precision so here is my quick and
dirty method.

Multiply 1 knot by 0.6 to get feet/second, 0.5 to get kilometres/ hour, 2.0
to get meters/sec, and 0.9 to get miles/hour.

These units become a big problem occasionally. We hear a lot about the hull
speed and that it is 1.34 *LWL^.5 but this is only true if the units are
feet and knots. It is 1.55 * LWL^.5 if you use feet and Miles per hour and
1.25*LWL^.5 in metric units and 2.4*LWL^.5 if you use knots and meters.

This is why I prefer the Froude number which is constant for any
consistent set of units. The Froude number is V=(g*LWL)^.5 where g is the
acceleration due to gravity. So long a one knows that the typical paddling
speed range is  between Fn 0.23 and Fn 0.30 and that racing paddlers peak
out at 0.60 it is easy to handle.

Cheers,
John Winters
Redwing Designs
Specialists in Human Powered Watercraft
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From: <dldecker_at_mediaone.net>
subject: Re: [Paddlewise] Back to basics
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 09:23:56 -0500
Only two interrogative grunts? There are about a hundred more you will need
to learn then John, to talk fluent American

Dana


At 07:42 AM 3/12/98 -0500, John Winters wrote:
>Ari wrote:
>
>(SNIP about conversion - units rather than religous))
>
>Here in Canada we are expected to be fluent in two languages (never know
>that from my French) as well as two measurement systems plus must be able
>to spell in two versions of English (Americans don't use enough "u's").
>Worst of all, we have to understand two interrogative grunts ("Eh" and
>"Huh").  
>Cheers,
>John Winters
>Redwing Designs
>Specialists in Human Powered Watercraft
>http://home.ican.net/~735769/


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