Med liveaboard and cruise in a motorboat

[grumpygit]

Hi Grumpy

This should stir things up!

Yes sail boats make perfect aim for points when offshore in a power boat.
Sail boats move so slowly, for all intensive purposes, even from a 20 knot motor boat they can be considered as stationery.

From a motorboat it's far more comfortable on the eye, easier & more economical to keep a straight course when you have something to head towards.
A great big white triangular 'none moving' sail is as good as it gets!

The Sail boat only needs to be roughly in the correct direction to be used as something to aim towards. Without sail boats to aim for motor boats without auto pilot burn more fuel zig zaging about trying to keep a straight course by compass or GPS alone. Its just as annoying for the motorboat on reaching the sail boat (hopefully not too close) as a new target in roughly the correct direction now needs to identified.

Suggest you ditch the big white easily seen, way point style, flappy thing and go for a camouflaged or transparent sail.

Wouldn't really need to change the "flappy thing" if most MoBo skips leant to navigate and then they could stop using yachts as waypoints.........Especially for the few that dare loose the sight of land !
I think when I need a new mainsail I'll have target rings printed on it specially for you.

As fair as comfort goes, I've just been down to the harbour where a F6 is blowing and there's a Ferretti flyb of about 50 feet and I'm sure if you put a pint of milk on that thingy place above the patio it would be butter by the morning....! The yachts all are sat there quite comfortable and content.

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