I've been doing some reading on this board and found references to the blue hull being slower than the white hull. Is this factual? Cindy and I bought the blue hull as we thought it looked better. If it is slower it doesn't matter much to us, we're here to just have fun; racing isn't something we are interested in (yet? ). We're just curious.
Blue hulls indicate the owners has chosen to align themselves with a stealth order, special ops, the knights templar, the UN black ops police, etc.
The more they deny it the more obviously true it is.
White hulls are the "white hats" (from the old cowboy movies) truth and justice.
Miss_Dallie wrote:Good day all:
I've been doing some reading on this board and found references to the blue hull being slower than the white hull. Is this factual? Cindy and I bought the blue hull as we thought it looked better. If it is slower it doesn't matter much to us, we're here to just have fun; racing isn't something we are interested in (yet? ). We're just curious.
You will soon learn that whenever another sailboat is behind you but traveling in the same direction - - -it WILL inevitably pass you - - - because you have a blue hull.
I understand it's a horrible feeling (I wouldn't know, I had a white hull), but you'll get used to it
This can't possibly be true.
The blue part hardly touches the water, and people have an array of different bottom paints and colors.
I myself was going to get a blue hull but ended up with a white one at the last minute. I live in Florida. It's better that I own the white hull. I may awlgrip my hull with a pale blue at a later date.
If it's been statistically proven the white is faster then I submit it's not the color but the people who choose the blue are just slower sailors. More patient and lass rash, perhaps. If that is the case, then I myself will be at the back of the fleet with my white boat because I WOULD have got the blue hull under normal circumstances.
The reason MacGregor charges more for the blue hull is because it has a special bluish tinted Teflon-like coating that is in fact smoother than the white standard fiberglass. Under power, the hull doesn't see much friction with the water and there is no difference, but when healing and the blue surface contacts with the water it is slicker and therefore substantially faster. Well, maybe not substantially, but you will notice approximately 1/2 knot greater speed with the blue hulls.
On the downside, the blue hull is a bit harder to keep shiny, but many prefer the speedier blue hulls and that's why they prefer them.
I ordered the optional double henweigh so I could race in competition.
I have a blue hull, but didn't pay for it. The dealer realized what a nit picker I was and "accidentally" forgot to charge me for it. A wise move that saved him a lot of headaches.
My sailing speeds are getting slower and slower, as my white hull emerges from underneath the blue.
Ixneigh wrote:This can't possibly be true.
The blue part hardly touches the water, and people have an array of different bottom paints and colors.
I myself was going to get a blue hull but ended up with a white one at the last minute. I live in Florida. It's better that I own the white hull. I may awlgrip my hull with a pale blue at a later date.
If it's been statistically proven the white is faster then I submit it's not the color but the people who choose the blue are just slower sailors. More patient and lass rash, perhaps. If that is the case, then I myself will be at the back of the fleet with my white boat because I WOULD have got the blue hull under normal circumstances.
Ixneigh
Ixneigh,
You are proving the point. You made the decision to go to a white hull quickly ("at the last minute"). If...and I repeat if...you had gone with a blue hull you probably would have found that you would have spent days/weeks/months agonizing over whether or not you should go blue or white. But the white hull not only sails and motors faster it makes your decisions happen faster. Don't try to nit-pick the science...this is Einsten level theoretical stuff here...
). We're just curious.
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