Re: [Paddlewise] Wasa Bogo?

From: Michael R Noyes <mnoyes_at_gsinet.net>
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 22:11:54 -0400
> Q: What are bogo-knots?
>
> A: Way back before I found out that hydraulic current stations generate
> results that are actually in units of knots squared, I didn't know what
> units they were, so I called them "bogo-knots."
>

Does this make them square knots?
Sorry, I couldn't resist.

Mike


--
    Paddling along through fog so thick that only one's thoughts are
visible, your reverie is abruptly shattered by the ancient cry of a great
blue heron as she lifts uncertainly from the brilliant blue of a
mussel-shell beach witnessed only by the brooding, wet spruce....your
passage home seems as much back through time as it does through space.
Mark H Hunt


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