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Craig O'Donnell wrote:

> >I believe Uffa Fox is generally credited with discovering the
> >possibility of planing, ca 1930. That was in an International 14.
> >Before
>
> Well, nothing ill to Uffa, who was a great designer, but he didn't
> really 'discover' planing. He figured out how to design hulls that
> would. Tantamount to discovery in the practical sense.
>
> Various small boats had planed or "whatevered" from time to time for
> years prior. I don't know if the Commodore's report of 1898 was the
> first published ddescription of planing but if not it's one of the
> early ones indeed.
>
> In general Pacific sailing canoes are deep and could not plane,
> though being narrow and relatively long they could certainly move out.
>
> The Commodore's info appears on my Cheap Pages, you can read what he
> had to say.
>
> In any event, this was no planing dinghy. This was a 31-ft sharpie
> built quick and dirty (bend two long side planks around a midships
> mold, crossplank the bottom), and what's even more astonishing, it
> was a double-ender.
> --
>
>      Craig O'Donnell
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