BrianH
Active member
That is just so wrong. My HR94 (the only motor sailor HR ever made) sails well to windward with winds over 5 knots, at which the engine was never used. With a long keel her leeway is certainly not what I had with leaner, fin-keeled yachts of earlier years ... it took me until my 70s before I saw the light and converted.No it becomes a boat with a wheel house. A motor sailor needs a F5/F6 ideally a F7 before it sails without mechanical assistance.
Below sailing with the wind at 50 degrees apparent at 16.4 knots and the GPS recording boat speed as 5.7 knots. That was in the early days of my ownership, she improved a lot when I fitted in-boom reefing and a fully battened, flatter mainsail.