At that time she was secured on the River Stour with one watchman on board, and less than 2t of fuel.
I think you mean 1986, just after she sailed as Laser Hot Hits? }
If so, then power output was about 22 kilowatts, until the legendary Boxing Day storm, which felled all the array and most of the front mast. Heavy snow over the area scuppered tenders. I'm sure Mike will confirm that; he had an awful time in the engine room when she hit a series of really big rollers and swears the she almost capsized. (They were running the engine to take the strain off the anchor chain.)
Dennis Jason did some video the next morning; Even the RR was leaning well over and bouncing bit!
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