Bert Robbins wrote:


Too many times I have seen a "sailboat" with a sail kind of half assed up
but the motor is in the water and you can see the propellor's trail and
these idiots think they are "under sail." These are the people that give the
rest of you rag merchants a bad name.


Nothing illegal about using the motor to assist when the wind is
low...or coming from an awkward direction and the sailor wants to make a
bit of time, as long as he realizes he is now acting as a motor boat.