Talk:Sailing

Initial

I need to shrink the graphic.

• Done, with assistance from a Constable.

"History" and "Racing as a sport" require more work as I know almost nothing about them. But its a start.

Any comments?

Andrew Fleisher 22:56, 29 April 2007 (CDT)

Photos

I added one. There are many other wonderful free photos at Flickr of sailing. Here are a few:

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/aldask/487011575/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/math_paul/3070334/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/sirmikester/97048382/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/koalie/389961014/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/mydnight296/21797710/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdlasica/214385894/

Stephen Ewen 17:00, 6 May 2007 (CDT)

line, not rope

I would say we should educate that there are only 2 ropes on a sailboat - "bolt rope" and "anchor rope." Everything else is a line, sheet, or halyard. We should also spell both ways of writing different sailing words. For example both Jibe and Gybe should be listed. -Tom Kelly (Talk) 17:20, 6 May 2007 (CDT)

Excellent start

Just wanted to say that. --Larry Sanger 13:57, 17 May 2007 (CDT)

Approval?

In my opinion this article is not quite ready for approval. Example issues:

• The history section is extremely short; article is not comprehensive
• The discussion of the difference between a boat and a ship doesn't seem important enough to belong in the introduction
• The rigging diagram, [1], uses a formula, a=(vf-vi)/t, which assumes constant acceleration. Also, I seem to recall hearing once that lift is more complicated than the fast-air-is-low-pressure principle; I think a physics and/or engineering editor should look over this section before approval.
• The article consists of a bunch of sections without a coherent narrative flow.

--Warren Schudy 12:28, 6 January 2008 (CST)

If that formula is wrong (I assumed that was the one), then could you tell me which formula it is so that I might fix it? Or is the formula so complicated that it's not even worth putting in the diagram? (Chunbum Park 14:16, 6 January 2008 (CST))

I know that it is much more complicated than the Bernoulli's Principle but that's basically the main part of it - my physics textbook doesn't get better than that. (Chunbum Park 14:20, 6 January 2008 (CST))