Quote Originally Posted by westair View Post
I guess I was looking just at the numbers .... assuming that the boat was starting from a standing start, (not really clear on that since I haven't followed since rolling starts) just thought they accelerated quicker and like you said had the advantage of the shorten course.
don't get me wrong, the things are animals and take a set of bowling balls to pilot.
When you crunch the numbers, going 260 verses 330 in the same distance tells you which is really accelerating the hardest.

The boats leave harder but run out of steam earlier. When they ran a full 1/4 the numbers between the 2 was much more telling.

This vid explains the start of the boats. They don't "roll" to the beam, they charge it.