Faster than the wind
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If you can get 2x the wind speed in water, what could you do on ice with the same sails?
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@jimboq8 So?
Downwind isn't the fastest you can go on a boat.
Perpendicular/beam reach is the fastest.
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@pataxe96 Patty you weirdo
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that doesnt look like six knots!
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@jimboq8 I really don't see why that bothers you. They never said they were OUTRUNNING the wind. Their speed is twice the wind speed - that's all they said. Then again, reading your reply your confusion is understandable. Did you notice how you typed "YOU ARE cutting...". The contraction of this is "YOU'RE". The word "YOUR" is for ownership. Therefore, your closing comment should have been "...YOU'RE not going with it". Seriously, get the language right.
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@0lllliiiiiii an asymetric spinnaker is often on a bow sprit. A symetric spinnaker is on a pole
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TWICE the windspeed? Post a link to the polar graph for the SK4, cause Im waving the BS flag on this on.
To get up to 2x windspeed you would need a hydrofoil, or an ICE BOAT.
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@0lllliiiiiii it is a spinnaker it is a asymetric spinnaker not gennaker. gennaker is on front of boat not on bowsprit.
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its a gennaker.
a spinnaker would have his pole on front side of the mast,
whereas the gennaker has a bowsprit
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@Hedgehoggy1983 look like a spi
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You are cutting across the wind your not going with it...
jimboq8 2 years ago 4
there are two parts to the answer. First, the boat is traversing the wind, creating an apparent wind, which is faster then the real wind. Also, wind speed is not directly related to the power of the sails. The sails create a gap in pressure on the far side of the sails, like an airplane wind, it gives lift. The sails are pulled by the wind, not pushed by it.
pleb222 2 years ago 2