Motor yachts

In the early fifties, many sailors are biased to be installed on a yacht petrol engine or diesel. The engine on the boat felt completely useless and even dangerous (in respect of fire) load, argued that the motor is peculiar to refuse to work in the most critical moments. The majority of yacht captains called the unnatural union of motor and sail.

Now the situation has changed. It is hard to find-kreyserschika yachtsman who would deny the need to install an auxiliary engine. The vast majority of cruising yachts supply the engines, if not in the building, then the subsequent conversion.

The motor is definitely required when a yacht has to enter the harbor through the narrow twisting waterway, tacking against the wind. About him, and could not help remembering when the sails hang helpless, and an urgent need to return to the yacht club, going against a strong current. A statement on the anchor and anchor shot in narrows, the transitions of channels and under bridges, swimming in the calm? In all these cases, the motor is not only easy to maneuver, but also saves time, which can then be used to go a hundred miles or more to explore the sights on the beach.

The tourists sailing on boats, on the contrary, often a desire to put the sails in order to use a fresh fair wind, to save fuel, and just take a break from the constant noise and vibration motor.

Below is the features of the combined motor powerboats and sailing vessels that combine quality sailing yachts and motor boats. The two extremes of such vessels are combined with an auxiliary motor yacht is a small power and full rigged and the boat with a powerful engine and an auxiliary sail (mainly to give the vessel stability in the agitated sea). Court of intermediate type discussed in this article, will be called motor sailers.