sailingeric
SailingEric
sailingeric

I’m here for the shits and giggles, but mainly the comments. 

You must be new here.

Has Jalopnik been reduced to synopses of magazine articles and youtube clips?

Not if she was white. Then it will be about white privilege and arrogance. 

Will David take it to Moab next year?

It’s good to see that Ferrari contributed something to the Fiat Chrysler alliance before being spun off.

It’s a Jeep thing, you won’t understand?

Yeah, the Cherry Pie was were it was at. That molten red goo was delicious, even if you had to bite a cooling vent in the corner of the pie so you wouldn't scald your face with that stuff.

The F-35B is, undisputably, the best VTOL fighter available today.

...the family plans to use the car as a generator...

Miles has never been on a ship in heavy seas.

“...journalist...”

Shit happens.

Oregon is very diverse.

Trevor Noah once joked that Oregon’s minority population is dictated by whether the Blazers are home or away. It’s pretty much true. Though we do have a pretty strong Asian population in Portland.

Wow. Everyone copying the Explorer?

I race sailboats and have for over 20 yrs from 420s to lightnings to j/boats.

Since kinetic energy is mv^2, the energy from the wind can’t impart the same energy into the craft. Turns out the craft ends up generating more energy by moving and causing a pressure differential through the sails against the air.

Neat! I didn’t know anything about sailing before today.  This is good stuff.

Let me try to explain, based on my limited understanding. Suppose you have a south wind; it’s coming from the south, heading north at 10 meters per second. If you have a perfectly-efficient, frictionless, magical sailing craft, and you point it north, it’ll accelerate up to 10 m/s. However, if you point it, say, 30°