Deleted
Deleted
7 years ago by poetrybyjeremy (58)
$0.33
- Past Payouts $0.33
- - Author $0.32
- - Curators $0.01
28 votes
- + damianjayclay: $0.116 (100%)
- + helpie: $0.063 (4%)
- + crimsonclad: $0.032 (8%)
- + mistermercury: $0.029 (31%)
- + poetrybyjeremy: $0.017 (100%)
- + discordiant: $0.015 (8%)
- + crescendoofpeace: $0.013 (100%)
- + atomcollector: $0.010 (10%)
- + sbi4: $0.008 (1%)
- + carrieallen: $0.006 (10%)
- + bennettitalia: $0.005 (10%)
- + reewritesthings: $0.004 (100%)
- + maverickinvictus: $0.004 (1%)
- + isleofwrite: $0.002 (8%)
- + gamsam: $0.002 (2%)
- + redrica: $0.001 (0.88%)
- + soulturtle: $0.001 (0.8%)
- + melavie: $0.001 (0.8%)
- + pechichemena: $0.001 (1.2%)
- + markaustin: $0.001 (5%)
- … and 8 more
Love this poem, though while sailing, the wind actually pulls the boat forward, rather than pushing it.
Counterintuitive, I realize, and not something that even a lot of casual sailors would know. Still, an excellent poem.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Thank you for the comment. Counter-intuitive or not, It's actually one of the more interesting comments I have received. I love to learn stuff and this is fascinating. Pulling you say? It's rather confusing to why it is being pulled rather than pushed or a combination of both.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
It has to do with wave motion physics, which applies both to water and air movement. The short version is the wind creates a low pressure area ahead of the sail, which draws the boat forward to fill the void.
My former husband and I bought a Morgan sailboat in the 90s, and one of his high school buddies was a professional sailor, who had literally sailed tens of thousands of miles in his twenty odd years of sailing. When he realized I had an interest in the technical side of sail handling, he gave me one hell of an education, which I couldn't have gotten otherwise.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
That's interesting. Life is interesting like that; we learn from the people we meet and from our experience more than from 'formal education'.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
We do indeed.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit