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swampyankee
 Post subject: Re: Size relative to speed , in the age of sail Posted: July 18th, 2012, 3:12 pm 

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iirc (again, from Chappelle), the longest practical wooden ship was about 300 ft (maybe 350 ft) on the waterline. Sailing ships don't plane -- they're too heavy -- although small sailing craft may (indeed, there are sailing hydrofoils), so they're quite strictly bound to speed-length ratios (speed i...
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