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Re: Strip: Feedback on Nicks Mystery build
By:dave koslow
Date: 8/19/2014, 2:49 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: Feedback on Nicks Mystery build (John Messinger)

there was a formula way back to calculate hull speed, in Wavelength magazine.
Maximum speed in kts = 9.15 - 27.71*(W/L).

So, knowing the waterlines, the Mystery calculates out to 6.84 Kts , and the Petrel to 6.10 kts.

I have no empirical knowledge about the validity of this equation, but is does give a relative relationship.

Seems to me, to achieve those speeds is athelete status paddlin'....go with whichever design makes your heart sing best.

I expect buried in the hydrodynamics somewhere one could calculate acceleration...based on cycling, I find thats more of what people perceive as "faster". Perhaps parsing the drag curves?

http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com/guillemot/node/54/perf
http://www.guillemot-kayaks.com/guillemot/node/89/perf

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Strip: Feedback on Nicks Mystery build
Robert Horstmann -- 8/19/2014, 9:34 am
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John Messinger -- 8/19/2014, 1:09 pm
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dave koslow -- 8/19/2014, 2:49 pm
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wanderfalk -- 8/19/2014, 2:59 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/20/2014, 12:40 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 8/20/2014, 12:16 pm
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wanderfalk -- 8/20/2014, 3:04 pm
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 8/20/2014, 9:13 pm
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John Messinger -- 8/20/2014, 3:50 pm
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 8/20/2014, 9:34 pm
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wanderfalk -- 8/20/2014, 10:24 pm
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Allan -- 8/20/2014, 11:36 pm
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Allan -- 8/20/2014, 11:42 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 8/21/2014, 1:15 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 8/21/2014, 10:35 am
Drag Curve Question for Nick
John Messinger -- 8/21/2014, 11:28 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 8/21/2014, 11:32 am
Thanks, I understand. *NM*
John Messinger -- 8/21/2014, 11:41 am
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Bill Hamm -- 8/21/2014, 1:09 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 8/21/2014, 11:28 am
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Robert Horstmann -- 8/27/2014, 9:22 am
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Nick Schade - Guillemot Kayaks -- 8/27/2014, 5:55 pm
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scottbaxter -- 8/27/2014, 9:29 pm
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wanderfalk -- 8/27/2014, 11:09 pm
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scottbaxter -- 8/27/2014, 11:46 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 8/28/2014, 4:43 am
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howard -- 8/28/2014, 7:32 am
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Robert Horstmann -- 8/28/2014, 8:29 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 8/28/2014, 5:06 am
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Robert Horstmann -- 8/28/2014, 8:38 am