Boat Cruzin

Last week Friday I celebrated my 18th birthday, yep the big adult number. So as a gift my parents bought me and my friends tickets to ride on the Makani Kai Catamoran. It takes base in Kiwalo Basin. The trip included two drinks, pupus, cookies, potential whale watching, and the firework show off of the Hilton. However, I wasn't aware that it would include some mean physics action. First, I noticed the jib and the sail. The jib keeps the boats balance so that it won't tip over or lean to one side. It also off sets the weight of the sial so that the boat can cut through the water. The wind fills the sail with transveres waves. Those waves then pus the boat to almost any destination. However, the boat also has a motor, which we of course know is made of a coil, wire, and a magnet. At times, we would use the motor and then switch over to the sail. I noticed that when we were sailing I got more sea sick then when we used the motor. Perhaps, it was because the boat moved on the huge transvere waves in the ocean. It was just going up-down-up-down. I last thing I noticed was the whales and how they plowed through the waves with their huge massive bodies, creating ripples and white foam. Sometimes there tails shoot up to off set their front portion of their body so that they can dive deep doen to get food for themselves and their pod. I beleive the term is breaching.

Anyways Happy Birthday to me and Happy Physics to Mr. K! :)