I asked a mate I work with who owns a power boat with if he wanted to come for a sail and he asked me how fast my sail boat went

I said to him it went around 5 knots and he said that he trolled at that speed on his power boat

The next day we went out and initially the wind was around 8 knots and he was on the helm and thought it was pretty tame

As the day went on the wind increased to probably 25 knots and she started to heel a bit

Sensing that he was getting a bit worried I pulled the headsail and main on a little more to get the rail under water and he asked with a look of concern on his face if we were ok

I said don't worry Trevor we are only doing 5 knots and you troll faster than that on your boat

He replied that that was true but added that if his boat was on a angle like this it would be sinking

Regards Don