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equal to either 30° or 74o. This theoretical result may explain the bright returns that 

 have sometimes been observed in SAR images of ship wakes at angles smaller than the 

 Kelvin-cusp angle. The low-Froude-number asymptotic analysis of the Neumann-Kelvin 

 theory presented in this study also predicts that the wave-resistance coefficient is 

 0(f2), where F is the Froude number, for a ship form with a region of flare, O(F^) for a 

 ship form that is wall sided everywhere and has either a bow or a stern (or both) that 

 is neither cusped nor round, and 0(7^) for a wall-sided ship form with both bow and 

 stern that are either cusped or round. 



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