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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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