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Article: E=[mc.sup.2] makes a keen sailor: what do wooden sailboats and the world's most famous physicist have in common?(Rhumbline)(Albert Einstein as a sailor)
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- Offshore Yachting
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- August 1, 2007
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Did you know that Albert Einstein was a sailor? Nor did I, until I visited a small yacht club on the banks of Lake Starnberg near Munich and met Hannes Ross, the skipper of a small yacht that had been competing in a race while my wife and I had enjoyed a seafood lunch at a lakeside restaurant.
Ross's boat, Lorbas, is a 20[m.sup.2] Jollenkreuzer design class, originally designed about 80 years ago and still sailed in Germany, Austria, Poland and Switzerland. Professor Einstein, who wrote his famous formula, E=[mc.sup.2] in 1905, sailed his Jollenkreuzer, called Tummler, on a river near his summer home at Caputh, near Potsdam, between 1929 and 1932.
My ...