Re: [Paddlewise] surfing and hard chines

From: Bob Myers <bob_at_appereto.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 18:30:35 -0800
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:05:53 -0500
  "Michael Daly" <michaeldaly_at_rogers.com> wrote:
>
>Basically, to plane, you need to hit a speed/length 
>ration of 1.5 or greater.
>The speed/length ratio is the speed divided by the square 
>root of the length.
>This is familiar, as hull speed is defined as a 
>speed/length ratio of 1.34.

For those of you not familiar with the numbers, that's 
speed in knots and length in feet.  I'm guessing that 
anyone who didn't recognize the numbers (and therefore 
know them already) was probably wondering about that.

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