A short Quiz About Your Sailing

Some questions to see if you might be a fan of auxiliary electric propulsion

• Do you even take down your sails in a good wind so that you can enjoy running your engine?
• Do you have serious doubts when you enter a dark room and switch on the light switch as to whether the lights will work?
• Which works better, your electric starter motor or your gas/diesel?
  • Which do you spend more time maintaining and thinking about?
  • Do you know what your starter motor looks like or even care?
• Would you miss spending quality time with your local gas dock attendant?
• Do you own a motor boat with a sail or a sail boat with a motor?
• On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the most, how much would you miss the noise and smell if the motor and fuel systems were removed from your boat?
• Do you now or have you ever in the past, owned a gas/diesel powered widescreen entertainment system?
• Do you wear Ode-to-Exhaust cologne?
• Small craft warnings, good or bad day to go sailing?

On a serious side, questions about you sailing interests

• How often do you sail and nature of the predominant winds, currents, and tides?
• How often do you make passage and how far?
• What are the dimensions of your boat?
  • length of water line
  • beam
  • displacement dry and wet
• What type of auxiliary propulsion do you have today?
• What size of propeller do you have and space to install a larger propeller?