Sunday, September 19, 2021

Typhoon coming

 


While we're at it, let's look at this one below, which does seem, at first, to be stating the bleedin' obvious.  However, as various commenters pointed out, sometimes these offerings can be superior, a cut above the rest, with good information.  See what you think:



In sailing, wake turbulence exists in that form of course, wingtip vortices but there are many other forms too.  In practical terms, every racing sailor knows of the dirty wind shadow behind and sailors try to escape it by charging through the shadow to leeward and then heading upwind again.

2 comments:

  1. I (once) experienced wake vortices, and have NO desire to repeat the exercise...

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