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Originally Posted by John Doe
I don't think you are off base on the hard wired thing at all, and have seen many studies to back it up. I had to take fairly advanced calculus in college and struggled with it to the point of having to have a tutor (gd functions). Meanwhile having scored 1350 on the SAT and acing all sorts of high level biology, chemistry and even physics classes (algebra didn't bother me too much). I struggled with math as a child and still do--but can ultimately figure it out (as a previous poster indicated---harder for some but not impossible to plow through).
I do think you need a little refresher on your nautical analagies though: Hull speed is a rule of thumb term used in regard to displacement hulls to describe the hull's speed potential. Displacement hulls are called such because they displace water and specifically do not plane  |
Hull speed is 1.34 times the square root of the waterline length. All boats have a hull speed whether they are displacement hulls or not. I believe that even boats designed for displacement speeds can be made to plane with enough horsepower. For instance, a 5hp outboard on my OT Tripper canoe can make it climb over the bow wave.