Talk:Planing (sailing)
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There seems to be a glitsh in this page, so that it can be edited but the edits cannot be saved. Is it just me, or can anybody else try it out? I've been trying to sort the second link to NZ skiffs, but am tearing my hair out... TIA TonyClarke
The image looks more like the boat is being lifted out of the water by its sail... --128.218.19.195 02:32, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Well, sort of; spinnakers do provide upwards lift a the bow, which is good, as boats running downwind tend to submarine due to the torque on the mast. However, it's still climbing over its own bow wave (which it must do to exceed the hull speed, which is about 5.1 knots in that class) so it is planing, whether the lift is coming from the sail, the hull shape, or any horizontal foils (which look to be illegal in that class). scot 14:49, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
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- I'm not very familiar with the Musto class, but it looks as though the boat has jumped out of the water after hitting some other wave. The image from the Albacore page is better, though not ideal since we can't see the stern wave all that clearly. Paulgush 09:38, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
