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Old 02-19-2003, 11:10 AM
John R John R is offline
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Default Re: choice of outboard

Actually mile per hour times pie devided by nautical miles to the root of statute miles divided by 9700...

Finsless - I think he meant 1.2mph = 1 KNOT instead of 1mph = 1.2Kts. like you wrote - but you already new that didn't you. [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

While we're on near useless formulas (or is it formulai [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] ), did you know that for measuring stripers you can use (length x girth x girth) divided by 800 (L*G*G/800=weight) to get a very close approximation of weight? Not sure what other fish that formula works for...
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