Mike's point is spot-on - in fact the first question I pose on my site is "where do you sail?" - because local conditions establish one leg of the baseline of "safety" along with vessel and skill. (and my local conditions seem hell bent on testing both of the latter)
But...this industry needs to go mainstream. The sailors who can sail without aux power are few, those who will take all conditions into account (and have the schedule freedom to account for it) not much more numerous. That's why almost all production sailboats today have ICE's that can comfortably hit hullspeed and those are the boats that today's sailors are being educated on.
So I am just arguing for a bit more discretion in claims about performance/
-Keith
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