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Originally Posted by FF
"Your bow wake, which is your primary wake, will overtake them if you do that. "Remember you are going faster than they are by definition."
Usually (but not always) the passing boat will be larger than the boat being passed.
The difference in WL means there may easily be a 1K difference in unity (the sq rt of the LWL ) speed where there is little wake.
Passing a 40ft boat only 1K slower does not take as long as blithering on the radio or slow the boat being passed,
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When passing boat is sufficiently longer and passed boat is doing hull speed or less that is true and a good plan! However, in my experience those two items do not often coincide.