When a collision is imminent between a sailboat and a powerboat, when does the sailboat not have the right of way?
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Congratulations to Andy Crossman, Baltimore, Maryland, who correctly noted that the equation multiplying the square root of a sailboat’s waterline time 1.34 will give you the boat’s theoretical hull speed.