I shoot for keeping the boatspeed around 6 knots going upwind. I think my speedo is pretty accurate. That will depend on wind/wave conditions, of course, but, that seems to work pretty well for us.

Mark Xena, #68

:: Actually I meant to ask for target speeds upwind. Kinda
:: hard to read the polars in the Schumaker article.
:: Anything out there? Thanks.