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    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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