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In article .com,
wrote:

I have no objection to you calling my boat a trawler. In fact, if you
really question cruising sailors, you will probably find they run their
engines 75% of the time.

Here is the reality of sailboat cruising.

Assume you can sail into 270 degrees of the 360. Assume (based on my
experience) you only have useful amounts of wind 50% of the time. This
means that 75% of the time, you cannot sail directly where you want to
go. Hence engines. Ergo, the best cruising boat is a motorsailor.

I'm of the "tack" crowd and have sails that keep us going when others
motor, except in times like this. You had to be somewhere quickly, you
got there. That's what the engine's for.

--
Jere Lull
Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD)
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