Posted by lance_ryley (lance_ryley@…>)
I took Mike_c_f35ck’s polar plot excel file and added the plots to
them to show them graphically. It’s in files under “f44 40 35 ck
polars with plots.” I didn’t change any of the numbers - mostly did it
to see if Excel could do a polar graph. It can, as long as you don’t
tell it what you’re doing.
Posted by michel.capel (michel.capel@…>)
Lance, nice work! I never got to making the graphs, but yesterday,
while reading the discussion, I thought I might add the graphs.
— In freedomyachts2003@yahoogroups.com, “lance_ryley”
<lance_ryley@…> wrote:
I took Mike_c_f35ck’s polar plot excel file and added the plots to
them to show them graphically. It’s in files under “f44 40 35 ck
polars with plots.” I didn’t change any of the numbers - mostly did
it
to see if Excel could do a polar graph. It can, as long as you don’t
tell it what you’re doing.
Posted by lance_ryley (lance_ryley@…>)
Thanks - for me, that was really the only point to the exercise - to
see if I could make Excel plot a polar graph. I already love my boat
and don’t need the numbers to tell me that. Although they may come
in handy next year when my wife and I do Marblehead to Halifax - not
as absolutes, but over a distance race like that, knowing, for
instance, that the fastest point of sail for the Cat Ketch seems to
be around 120 degrees off true wind angle might help to minimize the
time between showers.
Bright Star
— In freedomyachts2003@yahoogroups.com, “michel.capel”
<michel.capel@…> wrote:
Lance, nice work! I never got to making the graphs, but yesterday,
while reading the discussion, I thought I might add the graphs.— In freedomyachts2003@yahoogroups.com, “lance_ryley”
<lance_ryley@> wrote:I took Mike_c_f35ck’s polar plot excel file and added the plots
to
them to show them graphically. It’s in files under “f44 40 35 ck
polars with plots.” I didn’t change any of the numbers - mostly
did
it
to see if Excel could do a polar graph. It can, as long as you
don’t
tell it what you’re doing.