Beginner questions: Planing

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Planing

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Topic: Planing

Posted By: kurio99
Subject: Planing
Date Posted: 11 Sep 10 at 2:18pm

Have you gotten your boat up on plane? What wind speed did you need and what type of boat were you sailing?

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Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 11 Sep 10 at 3:31pm

It all depends what you mean by planing, which is a suprisingly complex topic. Have a search for old threads. But in the normal way the word is used amongst UK dinghy sailors I would think the answer is that pretty much everyone here has. Other than multihulls, which march to a different drummer, there are precious few unballasted boats sailed in the UK that don't plane in the commonly used sense.

Posted By: Medway Maniac
Date Posted: 11 Sep 10 at 6:10pm

Try reading this earlier thread, bearing in mind that Jim C's comments are correct:

http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6652 - http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6652

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