Mike Daly wrote: > * I'm not exactly sure if this is the right length. Good posting, I happen to catch the canoe and kayak trials and I noticed that the bow and stern had nearly vertical lines and I was wondering why. If they limit the overall length then it would make sense that the designers would want to make the LOA the same as the water line length, to get the highest hull speed possible. I was also wondering by how much they exceeded the hull speed, I could tell by the wake that they were easily overrunning their bow wake, indicated they were well above their hull speed. I did not have a calculator handy and you just answered my question with your posting. As far as the effort expended to do so, it looked quite painful, especially the canoe racers with the single paddles. Peter *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Sep 28 2000 - 10:28:27 PDT
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