was going to write this month’s column about propellor selection. Biking my 2-year-old son, Axel, to preschool yesterday, the piece started forming in my head. It was technical. Balance the tradeoffs between engine efficiency at slow speeds offshore versus power for maneuvering around the dock and drag-free efficiency under sail. In my head on the bike, the thesis of the propellor piece was to first figure out exactly what you wanted to optimize for. From there, all of your decisions would effortlessly follow. And then
