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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Fair enough. Your're probably right. On the other hand, the fact that they could do that doesn't change the fact that the boat's best economy is still at 10 knots. I believe Ducimus was wrong about that and I said so at the time.
Maybe you aren't the one to talk about black and white. In the previous discussion I backed off and tried to turn it into an open discussion about the problems of one versus the other, and it turned into a fairly interesting conversation, which you dropped out of. When you came back your contribution was "They said they did it, and that's good enough for me", which is fine, but much more black-and-white than anything I said.
So, maybe they did and maybe they didn't. You're probably right. Sorry I intruded.
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I was simply saying they did in fact cruise at 15 knots usually since they had extra fuel and could make the pit stop at Midway etc, the Gato/Balao/Tench boats could do so.I did not dispute that 10 knots is prob their best fuel economy, no doubts many slowed down usually to save fuel once in the area, of course different variables would dictate this but 15 was a nice balance to cruise to an area and home, cut transit time down a bit.
Well in the previous discussion I felt we were at a stalemate because while I understood the black and white side of things, ie the tech data said the top speed was 20.25 knots, several of the men who were actually there have authored accounts saying when operating outside the black and white of tech specs in the real world, they had pushed their boats to make an extra 2 or 3 knots when in emergencies that called for it.I tend to trust someone's first hand account as long as their word is solid and not talking something that is impossible, which getting a little extra performance from machinery via different methods is not unheard of.However, you still disagreed, I felt there was no way to change your mind and so I decided to just let it go.
No need to apologize, you were no intruding, no problem with you contributing, nothing personal on my end just felt when I was corrected in error I needed to respond, as I did.