Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 13:08:08 -0800 (PST)
From: wolfgang brinck <nativewater@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: baidarka radical yax
To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
--- Ranald Gault <gaultr@cadvision.com> wrote:
snip
What is most
> interesting
> about this reconstruction of course is that it is
> based on
> the one estimated by Cap'n Jim Cook to be doing 7
> knots, 50%
> over its theoretical hull speed. The articles by
Joe
> Lubischer and George Dyson in Arima's "Contribution
> to Kayak
> Studies" volume (Mercury Series No. 122, 1991)
> discuss this
> and other examples of apparent overperformance
> reported in
> reliable historical testimony. I want to believe!
>
> - amuldering in the Area 51 of Baidarkadom,
> Ranald Gault
>
You don't have to believe. You can build your own
replica and then come up with explanations why your
replica doesn't have the reliable historical
overperformance and only performs at 100% of
theoretical estimates.
Wolfgang
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