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Old 12th September 2015 | 13:58
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Journey Man
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The boats don't 'make their own wind', so much as the relative wind vector increases as the boat speed increases allowing the boat to accelerate until drag stabilises the speed.

And as you've no doubt spotted, in your case the 'wind' is generated by accelerating a mass of air by a fan mounted on the boat so you wouldn't have an increase in the relative wind. Nice try though.
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