Unless you fall out of the boat.
My mom’s husband is a very accomplished sailor. He once was on the winning team of the Detroit to Mackinac race.
They were sailing his boat and she lost a shoe in the water while she was clambering up to the bow. As he reached in to grab it, he fell in leaving her, a rather neophyte sailor to turn a 40’ sailboat.
Fortunately, someone saw it happen and rescued him.
But yea, I agree, much easier.
My brother has a small fleet of sailboats, Hobie, O’Day etc. I get too bored going so slow. He loves it.
“I get bored going so slow.”
What REAL sailors are capable of-—
Across the Ocean in a Work Week: Shattering the Transatlantic Sailing Record (Comanche)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDmz9iqyeSU