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Date: Wed Jul 14 2004 - 11:07:31 EDT
Well just so we can be more familiar with our wake and what it can do, in
the direction 90 degrees to the boat's course, therefore perpendicular to
boat, it is traveling at a speed equal to one half the boat's speed. If
boat is going 10 knots the wake is leaving it at 5 knots.
It is also traveling at equal to the boat's speed in the same direction as
the boat, IE parallel to the course. Therefore in my example of a boat going
10 knots, it is moving at 10 knots.
But the maximum speed that the wake is traveling is the vector speed and in
the case of my 10 knot boat it is 11.2 knots.
Another example might be a sports fisher going down the ICW at 25 knots. His
wakes is traveling at nearly 28 knots or over 32 MPH.
Reckon he has any idea or does he even care?
Is this more useless information until the plaintiffs lawyer brings it up in
a damage suit?
Bill
By the way if somebody stops 30 feet in front of you and you are traveling
10 knots, impact will be in less than 2 seconds.
---- Original Message -----
From: "bob england" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 9:42 PM
Subject: T&T: re:re: idiots on the icw
> i have no idea as to how fast my wake travels perpendick ular to my boat
and
> if it ever got ahead of me i must have missed it or it was to small to see
> because i was being courteous.
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