DSK wrote:
Yes, that would be the way to go. As for horsepower, we have
become lazy & spoiled... most boats could do quite well with
far less than the owner think acceptable... and I mean
sailboats, not the obscenely overpowered motor boats (for
example, my own motorboat is overpowered by about 30%, which
I would not call obscene but it's got one of the smallest
engines I've ever heard of in a boat of it's type & size).

I don't know Doug. I think I'd call that obscene.