{"id":364,"date":"2013-02-02T16:25:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T16:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2013-02-02T16:26:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T16:26:46","slug":"sci-tech-the-sailrocket-goes-where-no-sail-boat-has-gone-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: The SailRocket goes where no sail boat has gone before"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a fascinating article about the Vestas Sailrocket<\/a>, which broke what was considered a hard limit on sail boat speed:\u00a0 How a Boat-Plane Hybrid Shattered the Sound Barrier of Sailing – Autopia\/Wired.com<\/a>
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When I traveled to Namibia a year before, I had met a daredevil yachtsman with his eyes on a big prize. But now that he has it, all Larsen can talk about is the hydrodynamic frontier. \u201cWhat we are discovering is that things are not as black-and-white going through this barrier as we thought they were,\u201d he says. The mixture of air, vapor, and very high speed water wrapping itself around a boat at the limit is dynamic and extremely hard to model by computer or even simulate in a high-speed flow tank. To understand it, you must explore it directly, through experimentation. You need SailRocket<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Here’s a fascinating article about the Vestas Sailrocket, which broke what was considered a hard limit on sail boat speed:\u00a0 How a Boat-Plane Hybrid Shattered the Sound Barrier of Sailing – Autopia\/Wired.com When I traveled to Namibia a year before, I had met a daredevil yachtsman with his eyes on a big prize. 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