T&T: HP for displacement hulls

[capteric36]

 I once read a piece from a sailboat delivery 
skipper who said he would not take a delivery job 
on any boat unless it had at least 1 horsepower 
for each foot of waterline length.

 At least that is how I seem to remember it.
 My plan is to have a 25 HP motor on my Coronado 
35 sailboat. It has about a 27 foot waterline 
length and the engine it came with was a Ferryman 
22 HP diesel that the previous owner said worked 
well in all weather for years before a water in 
the cylinder situation ended it's useful life.

Eric Thompson
S/V Procrastinator
South San Francisco
capteric36 at sbcglobal.net