AUXILIARY YACHTS
The convenience of a motor for auxiliary power has long been recognised by owners of cruising yachts, and nowadays no vessel, however small, is considered completely equipped unless she has an engine of some sort. The advantages of an auxiliary motor cannot be disputed, as it often enables a yacht to return to her moorings when the wind fails, to say nothing of its value in extricating a craft from a hampered berth. I am inclined to think, however, that the possesion of such extraneous assistance is apt to make the owrter lazy (says an English writer). While sailing up the Crouch the other day I met several yachts coming down the river under power with their sails stowed, although they had a fair wind and an ebb tide beneath them. The owner of one. a Dutch built craft, had even gone so far as to unbend his sails, thus converting the yacht into a motor-boat pure and simple. although he had somewhat inconsistently left her lee boards in situ.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 789, 9 October 1929, Page 15
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172AUXILIARY YACHTS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 789, 9 October 1929, Page 15
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