[quote=tumbolo]Yep, you guessed it. Race to Alaska, which leads to the need of moving the boat in no wind. In that area in June there can definitely be times of no wind, and this could be the advantage of a beach cat over some of the other bigger sailboats. I haven't quite got it figured out, but I think rowing it can be done (I like the idea above) In times of no wind I can scull my 27ft aluminum sloop with a sculling oar, so I should be able to move a boat 12 times lighter... Alternatively I have been thinking of a pedaling station connected to a flexible drive shaft and a propeller... I think that it needs to be able to be done by one person so that the crew can switch off and get rest. More ideas are welcome!
So I still have the question of how much loss in upwind VMG will a skeg boat like a Nacra 570 have compared to a boat with boards???[/quote]
No HTML tags allowed (except inside [code][/code] tags)
