CRUISING TIPS
Feb 11, 2020
2 minutes
with Tom Cunliffe
RANGE UNDER POWER
uel consumption and range is really all about hull speed. This is the maximum at which a conventional sailboat can sensibly be driven and is equal to a constant (1.34) multiplied by the square root of waterline length (LWL). My boat’s LWL is 37ft. For convenience, I’ll call the square root of this LWL “around
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