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the speed of a sail boat is not all that slow.. i might have sailed big boats but i can tell you a crab boat aint fast. the Renigade did 8 knots and the Tempest did 11, the fastest was a streamer in the gulf of mexico and it did 17. My feeling is that the "average" cruising sail boat typically makes good about 4 knots port to port on passages of more than three days. Of course the variance is high but making good 8 knots port to port will require a fast boat and hard work and 11 knots is very fast even for racing boats. I'd guess that the passage times for your "Renigade" would be equivalent to a well sailed, fast 40 foot cruising cat or performance cruising mono of about 50 feet. -- Tom. |
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