Yes it has 267.5 square feet of sail and if you get any power out of that it will go fine. Spent many hours sailing while in high school- We wet sailed ours and is was good and watertight just had to pump out water if it rained -leak topside somewhere we never found- we sailed it for 5 years and never changed a thing- never broke anything- my brother took it out and capsized it and lost the crank for the main- but that was easily replaced. Then one day we saw another cat- a brand new Hobie 16 and is sailed rings around us. We did have to finish the wooden roller reffing piece on the jib and the rudder handles annually.

John