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Fighting the current is generally a losing proposition in a sailboat, which has a relatively low top-end speed to begin with. If the current is running at 5 knots against you, and you can only make 6 knots... the chances that you get into trouble are a lot higher than if you're trying to make the same passage at slack tide. A lot of the boats that make those passages against the current have a lot more horsepower and much higher top-end speeds... making a passage into a 5 knot current is much simpler in a boat that can do 20-30 knots as a top-end speed and has 10-30 times the horsepower you do.
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Sailingdog
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New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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