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 Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 6:56 pm Post subject: highest wind speed you have seen |
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ok, this is kinda pointless but i just wanted to see what you guys have gone through in the game. The highest wind speed was 30 knots in January... so yup, just another pointless topic, but my first pointless topic
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Highest I've ever seen was 21 knots, and that was in a hurricane! How fast were your ships going in thirty not wind?
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it shot me out of there like a bullet, i was using a royal sloop, but it seems the strongest winds in the storms are at the center...
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That would be fun to try during battle...
Today I saw a higher wind speed; 25 in a storm. That is the highest I've noticed. I might have to do hurricane research and sail into the center of storms in my pinnace. Which wouldn't work in real life. 
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24 knots is the highest I've seen so far. |
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The highest I've noticed is 24. |
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Bakas
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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hmm, well i still hold the record... but 30 knots i think is the limit, anyone know ehere i could find a conversion chart from knots to mph???
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| Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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1.6 miles per hour = 1 Knot |
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Bakas
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i wouldnt want to get caught in a 175 knot storm with my little Royal Sloop... painful, wet, and more pain if you are near sharp rocks 
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| Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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1.6 miles per hour = 1 Knot ::::: Is wrong.....
The real one is : 1 knot = 1,853 km or 1 knot = 1,158 miles
Seamiles and US miles is not equal:
(I know it, because I had been seaman for 2 years)
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 2:56 am Post subject: |
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I saw 29 knots while I was digging up treasure the other day...
The first time I saw rain on the land I thought my graphics card was getting twitchy! Of course, I was just a powder monkey back then...
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Eskimo_pirat wrote: | 1.6 miles per hour = 1 Knot ::::: Is wrong.....
The real one is : 1 knot = 1,853 km or 1 knot = 1,158 miles
Seamiles and US miles is not equal:
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Don't you mean 1 knot =1.853km or 1.158 miles?
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I was in the Navy for 4 years. This is what a nautical mile is: 6080 feet or it is 1853.184 meters. This only applies for the US and UK.
The International nautical mile is: exactly 1852 meters.
The regular land mile in the US is 5280 feet...
Check this link out it tells you what I just said... http://www.free-definition.com/Nautical-mile.html
So obviously if you are going 1 Knot then you will have travelled 6080 feet. If you go 1 MPH then its 5280 feet. I'm sure you can do the math to figure out the difference between Knots vs. MPH!
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Today I found 29 knots wind (don´t ask me how many feets, km, mph or abc was that) near from a strom in Veracruz... |
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