pretty sure that’s the Troy Walmart, so no

You’re the worst thing about this site. Your attitude, your clickbait, everything

You are a great example of why people don’t enjoy this place as much as they used to. I’m sure you have a great one-liner come back for me, fully loaded with sarcasm, but my statement is true. Stop being such a douchebag in the comments and maybe take the criticism to heart to make the site better.

Hi Bradley,
If it helps, this is the way I explain this concept of sailing faster than the wind speed to people... Imagine you’re on a river with the current flowing at, say, 10mph. There’s no wind. The boat is pulled along with the current, and the sails are set up to sail - they now ‘see’ 10mph of apparent wind…

I actually got most of that.I guess the part that still throws me is this-
When banked into a turn the boat’s V shape hull is tilted.The inner side is basically flat against the water and probably contributes nothing to the turning forces.
While the outer side is sharply angled upwards.But it’s not at right angle to…

• Cars (which operate above the plane of contact) rely on a different set of parameters than a boat. Boats deal with surface tension and the underlying forces beneath the water to create forward propulsion. Hence, the use of a centerboard in some types of hulls, or the (ideally) lack of friction in other designs, that…

I’m part of a long standing windsurfer global competition finding who can go the fastest, we wear GPS and prove you can go some 50% faster than the wind every weekend. It’s easy to do.

All my experience and joy in sailing got turned up to 11 when I came to understand the relationship to flying. That and my admiration for the people that figured so much of this out millennia ago. I mean seriously, people moved around on foot, horses, camels and sideways airplanes!!!

I’m with this commentor. Every article you write about expensive possessions goes on this same, tiresome, aggressive tangent raging against wealth. Regardless of the validity of your underlying point (which is questionable), it just makes for obnoxious reading.

I don’t know man, you seem pretty spicy yesterday and today. I mean we can both pretty well assume the guy didn’t do 240 on a public highway. If he did then yeah that’s careless and I don’t condone it. It reads like a chance to take a dig at a guy you don’t even know, that maybe you’ve made some assumptions about…

Hi,

I’m free to have an opinion about anything and everything you write. If you don’t want me to cherry pick it, don’t put it in the article.

Sure there is, those guys aren’t doing it. The legal options do just fine. Fight those. 

“fire billionaires into the fucking sun”

Except for one guy, someone else on earth is richer than you. No matter how you want to play it, this always remains true.

So electric boats go about as fast as... America’s Cup sail boats?

Right?!
I’ve heard they can pull really high Gs.It would sure be an experience

I said ‘holy shit,’ and the commentator said immediately after lmfao 

100% agree. Like many others, I got into NASCAR in the mid-90's when U.S. open wheel decided to see what would happen if they tried to kill a motorsport discipline. It was a lot of fun then, real characters and new blood keeping things interesting. I was even in a fantasy pool a couple years. Went to a half-dozen…

My story is similar to Stoney’s. I was a casual watcher of televised NASCAR races and I went to one. The stages were the beginning of the end. I had enough trouble with cars being so far removed from the cars we can buy.