Quotes About Planing

a keelboat's theoretical hull speed—the top speed it can attain without surfing or planing—is dictated by a simple formula: the square root of the waterline length multiplied by 1.34.

The primitive ideals of centralization are now largely self-defeating. Human crucifixion by vertically on the now static checkerboard of the old city is pattern already in agony; yet for lack of any organic planing it is going on and on--not living, but rather hanging by its eyebrows from its nervous system.