Boat crash fri night on river

spartacus · Post by **spartacus** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 5:25 pm

celestial_insight wrote:There is a maximum speed ANYWHERE on the river after sunset of 8 knots (which is about 5km/h - very slow). I very much doubt that speedboat was doing 8 knots or less considering the damage he caused. Also, if he knew what he was doing he would have known that nav marker was there. I hope he is charged.

8 knots is more about 15km/h
1 knot = 1.8km/h
1 knot = 1 nautical mile an hour
1 nautical mile = 1 minute of the equator

Still very slow, and slow enough that you will not end up dangled in your own boat.

Post by **celestial_insight** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 6:00 pm

Whoops, typo. Cheers..

spartacus · Post by **spartacus** » Sun Nov 18, 2007 6:13 pm

i think you devided by 1.8 not multiplied.
Anyway, we all make mistakes, some more then others though

(geez it is 7.15 all ready. The weekend has gone fast)

Post by **celestial_insight** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 4:44 am

Whoops - another mistake! 10 knots at night not 8! Losing my ummmm what do you call it again....??? oh, mind.