ATTN: if humor doesn't "float your boat" ;-) delete now!! this is a resend of the previous post, which left out the science part... At 14:24 01-12-98 -0800, Philip T. wrote: [sniparoo] > I do remember that water weighs about >64 lbs. per cubic foot, depending on whether it's fresh or salt. Here on >the Wet Coast, it's not uncommon to have to pump out your boat in the >morning if you've left it out on the beach without the cockpit cover. I'm >quite prepared to believe the weight and momentum of a few inches of water >in the boat could damage the boat, cause it to shear through roof rack >lines, and/or tip the car itself under the wrong acceleration/ >deacelleration/turning circumstances. [sniparoni the paddlewise treat ;-] i read the above, and said HUH?? 8.6lbs/gallon or 1kg/liter 2.2lbs/kg so 64 pounds of water is 29 liters, slightly more than a cubic foot ;-) then i also read: >Vancouver, BC, Canada V6J 1K1 and said, oh a canadian talking about pounds and feet ;-) and now for the rest of the story, 'cause i'm not trying to shame philip... - - - my reference book [i almost got a nose bleed climbing to the top of my bookcase] says: water at 62oF [distilled] 1 gal = 8.32675 lbs 1 cubic foot = 62.288 lbs [~7.45 gallons] = 28.3163 liters so, philip had the weight right, i got the liters, and still have a hard time thinking i can fit almost seven and a half gallons in ft^3 --- so when you hear the potomac river hit 375,000cfs, that's 2.8+MILLION gallons per second!! mark #------canoeist[at]netbox[dot]com-------------------------------------- mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [\_| [\_\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.diac.com/~zen/paddler [index of Paddling websites I manage] Rocky Mtn Sea Kayak Club, Colorado River Flows, Poudre Paddlers The Colorado Paddlers' Resource, Rocky Mtn Canoe Club Trip Page #-Fortune: "In a world without fences, who needs 'Gates'" -- Scott McNealy, CEO Sun Microsystems "In a world without walls, who needs 'Windows'" -- Dave Livigni *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Dec 02 1998 - 15:17:10 PST
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