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I think that the formula just gives the point where, for most monohull boats, the power to drive it faster starts to go up exponentially. Of course boats go faster but they have to get over that bow wave.
While a lot of folks have heard "Like a sailor, three sheets to the wind", the true expression is "Like a windmill, three sheets to the wind."
"Three sheets to the wind" refers to windmills with only 3 out of 4 sheets spread over the blades. With one foil out of commission, the windmill then works poorly at best, with a lopsided, irregular motion of the blades, and sometimes not at all.
On a square-rigged sailing ship, a SHEET is a line attached to the lower corners of a squaresail, used for trimming it to the wind. When sheets are allowed to run free, the sails lose their wind and flap and flutter. The ship's forward motion stops and as she loses steerageway, she becomes impossible to control, thus "THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND"!!
Where is the only place in the world that you may pass from the Pacific Ocean into the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and yet end up further west than while in the Pacific? And please explain why your answer is correct.
No one has given the answer to my question of where the pigeon holes are on a ship... What is the matter with the question? It is a legitimate sea-going question... And any of you that have worked in the fore part of a ship should know it.
I think it got skipped because Sailaway had already answered the question which you answered, so we had moved on to other questions. Rules are you have to be the first to answer a question, then you get to post a new one.
But hang on to that one, I'm intrigued and will watch for an answer.
Sorry Plumper that is not it. Those are flag bags.
The original Fife Rails were around the masts of square riggers where they belayed some of the haulyards.
Pigeon Holes anybody? And what goes into those pigeon holes?
Q. Before the use of the term SOS ...---... what was used?
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