This is a beam reach in 15 knots of wind, sea state about 1-2’, standard shoal draft keel at 5’, with new bottom paint, stock jib and main, and about 15° of heel. Just hit 9.2, 9.1knots for a second, so don’t know if I believe that, but held mid-8 knots steadily after that. I have done this more than once holding well over 8 for A long time. This is GPS SOG. So I don’t buy the 376’s hull speed is 7.6 Knots. I have this on video, with crew yelling “9.2!”, but I couldn’t post even 5 seconds of it here, so I went for this screen grab.
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