I have met people with Tri-hulls that needed more power than minimum in a blow, to keep them into the wind, forget moving the thing. Mono hull is a different story.
What I have noticed is the more power, the less you have to know to keep out of trouble. Sailors in the past used to respect nature more, than most sailors today, making more power almost mandatory. If however you respect the sea, be minded of currents, tides, weather charts, and rules the captains of the great sailing ships of the past lived by. As well as putting aside schedules that make one take chances so as to make it to port against common sense, and one can live without any aux on their sail boats.
I for one like limited aux, and can live with the inconveniences many others can't seem to live without. Many a cruising sailboat has as many hours on the iron sail as the boat has hours cruising. This is a sorry tail of high strung individuals unable to give up schedules. So for those individuals, I say bring on the power, and design for power storage to accommodated the need.
Kevin Pemberton
On 05/13/2010 05:10 AM, Colin wrote:
Well said John!
Hopefully we'll aspire to greater efficiency rather than greater power as non-renewable sources of power dwindle (or replace the water in the Gulf)
Cheers,
Colin
--- In electricboats@yahoogroups. , John Francis <surv69@...> wrote:com
>
> In 15 years of sailing I have never met a "single" person that ever needed
> the amounts of power(in ratio to the boat), that's considered minimal for
> needs.
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