All well and good, BUT. The original system was surely the best for calculating knots speed. Weren't knots tied in rope and let out the back of the boat?. The faster the "knots" were released, the faster you were going. I'm going to try this, does anyone know how far apart the knots need to be tied on the rope?

hardie said..



Mike what if you're really accurate at counting in your head like 1001 1002 1003..... 1022 and a bit, You could do a count for each run and say run1 was to a count of 22 seconds, and just a little bit more, etc then you calculate the distance you travelled with prior references to google earth, and use the distance by time method to calculate each run? For those with poor memories you could bring along a waterproof marker and waterproof paper, and write down each run, wouldn't that be at least the cheapest way to be involved in speedsailing? then all the money you saved in buying multiple gps's and batteries and electricity for charging, could be spent on fast fins, that would make you go even faster, meaning you would ending up counting less seconds per run 1001, 1002, 1003, ..... 1021 and no bits.?? You could even get really scientific with the count like saying in your head "thousand and one, thousand and two, thousand and three, thou". Stop Counting. Given there;s 14 letters in each count if you stop at "thou" thats 4/14's of a second, so it can be as accurate as you want it?

evlPanda said..
^ I don't get it. Why weren't there fifty edits in ten seconds? Why wasn't it in slow-motion?