On Nov 4, 1:19*am, Ron Wanttaja wrote:
Jim Logajan wrote:
However, it is probable that the paddle wheel ship simply didn't have the
right size paddles. Paddle wheels should be capable of efficiencies similar
to propellers - but it takes very large wheels.

Jim, Jim, Jim.... HOW can you set us up with a straight line like that?

1. *"It's not the size of the wheels, it's how you use them."

2. *"If they would have set up the wheels in a canard configuration, it
would have been more efficient."

:-)

Ron Wanttaja

Paddle wheels got screwed. It's just another demonstration that the
spinning thing belongs on the back of the hull.