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Sir Gregory Hall, Esq.[_3_] Sir Gregory Hall, Esq.[_3_] is offline

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Poor Skippy - MIA

On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 17:45:23 +0700, wrote:

Why in the world would a "real sailor" want an engine for his "ship"
after all a real sailorman would sail, not run a stinking outboard
motor. Wouldn't he?

You don't seem to get it, Bruce. A 6 HP outboard motor on a heavy
27-foot sailboat (8,500 lbs) is almost not enough to get it to
hull speed in flat water. Throw in any kind of wind and seas and
it's far more efficient and faster to sail.

Big diesel motors are used most of the time because they are so
powerful that they can deal with high winds and seas even from
dead ahead.

So real sailors tend to use weak motors because they know the
proper sails do a faster and better job while the diesel motor
heads rarely even bother raising sail because they become spoiled
by the diesel and turn into motor heads. Some of them are honest
enough to admit that they have turned into trawler people because
they could no longer handle the rigors of actually sailing.

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Sir Gregory

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