What does the future of motor-sailing hold?
Sail-cloth and engines have never really been great bedfellows. With headsails furled, and the main sheeted amidships, you can gripe to windward to save that pint, thanks to your ‘auxiliary’, but you are luffing yourself into a false sense of ‘sailing’.
Engines themselves, functionally square, squat uncomfortably in the functionally curved lines of a sailing hull. They sweat and rust in the salt
