Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Thursday night wild-card show, to our previous mention of l’Hydroptère (and here ~ she’s the world’s fastest sailboat, at just under 90 km/h), and to our previous mention of the Brossard Trimaran, here is some footage of the Géant ORMA-class sixty-foot ocean-going trimaran in relatively calm waters, which gives one a good idea of her general scope (4:24), and here is Géant in somewhat rougher seas (3:30).
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It can be hard to keep a sense of scale here, so do try to keep in mind: Géant is sixty feet long, or about ten times the volume of my Tornado KC 166. And then you have Reynold’s numbers, um, yes, here it is from Wikipedia: “if an airplane wing needs testing, one can make a scaled down model of the wing and test it in a wind tunnel using the same Reynolds number that the actual airplane is subjected to. If for example the scale model has linear dimensions one quarter of full size, the flow velocity would have to be increased four times to obtain similar flow behaviour”.
Géant ~ aye, what a boat she is!
Liz J: “It’s still all about the Liberals all the time in the MSM arm of the Party” — Yes, I hate that. We can expect a prolonged period of obsessive interest in “who will be the leader?” Liberals get way more attention than they deserve, but it seems there is not much to be done about it — perhaps tuning out if you can.