Don White wrote:

JimH wrote:

"Floyd" wrote in message
...

"If you did manage to produce enough power, could you power through
the bow wave
and thus produce a shock wave?"

If you did, you would be on plane, traveling over the water for the
most part, and leaving any remnant of a bow wave behind the boat.
Any relation of this phenomena to a sonic or acoustical shock wave is
only academic, since the speed of sound in water is about 5 times
faster than air, so it isn't likely that there will ever be a
watercraft moving at 3500mph.





I believe Skipper claimed his Bayliner came close to that speed at WOT
once while on the Sea of Cortez trying to outrun a giant Tostito. ;-)



Skipper *is* a giant Tostito!

Come on, Don. I know you can do better than that!

Dan