Sails or Limited Sails

Traveling Trans Crossing from St. Maartin to Lisbon on Windstar/Wind Surf in 4/19. Anybody have input as to how much is under "sail" and how much is "under motor power"? d.

Welcome to Cruise Critic. You will get some ideas if you ask this on the board here for Windstar, located under Cruise Lines P-Z. EM

It all depends on the wind. If you can make the schedule using sail, then that is what you will do, if you can't then you may use a combo of sail and power or just power.

As EM mentioned, you will get better responses on the Windstar Board.

However, in general many variables will impact the use of the sails. These variables will depend on any ports enroute, which will determine the routing.

The shortest distance is a great circle routing, which heads North, coinciding with the Gulf Stream current. Local surface trade winds are NE'ly, which results in inflow winds to the Equator being deflected by the earth's rotation. From about 30N, the trade winds change to SW'ly.

Not sure how close the ship can sail into the wind, but with technology, I suspect it will be fairly close. Based on the trade winds, you should get a reasonable proportion under sail.