Velocity Vectors

[TomP]

Originally Posted by Brian Duff

thanks Tom,
you so often see statments in yacht design books bout how the loads are so poorly understood, and I can see why after looking at those sorts of formulae !

Wild.

I do not know what books you have read, but I have never seen that statement in any of the texts I have.

It is not too terribly diffcult to discern. Simple application of variables and formulae will yield the result.