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Old 04-17-2021, 08:49 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Have you done anything in back to reduce your wake ?
I had considered building a removable boat tail for this trip but that didn’t happen so no, big old dirty hatchback wake.

P.S. after I cross the Mississippi the posted speed limits are much lower. Wyoming has the highest speed limit and I will only be on that section for 90 miles.
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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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