Why They're Called Knots #sailing

☠️ See if we died! https://youtu.be/ERZZe8F01MY

Boats use knots instead of MPH. I mean, usually. While sailing the bahamas in a 47' Vagabond sailboat, we hit speeds up to 8 MPH. Do you know how fast that is in knots??!! I'll tell you! And give you the fascinating history of how sailors calculated speed back when I was a kid in the 1600's.

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Why They're Called Knots
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