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Old 03-12-2015, 04:44 PM   #232 (permalink)
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Darrin, That boattail looks too good to end up in recycling at the end of winter. Throw some fiberglass (or at least poor man's fiberglass- bedsheet and house paint) on that thing and give us some long term test data. Then you won't have to scramble to find another winter beater next year.
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The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of the velocity. Mechanical friction increases as the square, so increasing speed requires progressively more power.
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