Originally posted by PhotriusPyrelus:

Originally posted by sarteck:

There's been some videos to show that... it depends. Usually not, but sometimes yes.
See FireSpark's video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSR-dOsaCdw

Beautiful; thank you!

Only skimmed the video but for Krave yeah its not good. Longship on the other hand is much better. Even in bad winds should be faster directly upwind.

It also depends on sea state and distance. High sea is really bad for Krave. If you dont want to do course keeping, rowing is a decent compromise for Longship too. And ofc over short distances like in the video you loose time on direction switchs.

On the other side in high winds and not perfectly upwid destination you gonna be easily twice as fast tacking with Longboat.

In theory raft is also better tacked, but in practice its roughly the same speed for more effort.


ps: if you love sailing in Val, try Sailwind, its pretty much just this but better