Estimate your travel costs and to calculate your average speed and the speed of last year’s winner
Last year’s winner
Your sponsor will need to know how your average speeds compare to the speeds of past
winners. In Part IV, you’ll find out how to calculate boat speeds in knots .
1. What was the winning time of last year’s race for your city and boat?
2. Do you know how fast last year’s winner was traveling?
3. What information do you need to know to calculate last year’s winning speed? Remember, the distance traveled is equal to the rate times the time.
A nautical mile is 6076 feet. A speed of one nautical mile per hour is a knot. In the next two questions, you will convert a speed in feet per minute to knots.
4. If you travel 1000 feet in 5 minutes, what is your speed in feet per minute?
5. What is your speed in knots? Hint: Use the number of minutes in an hour to convert the speed to feet per hour. Then use the number of feet in a nautical mile to convert feet per hour to knots.
