It is usually sailed with a crew of three.
I remember one time when we sailed from San Francisco with a most hopeless crew.
She sailed with a crew of 97, and a hospital staff of 91.
She sailed from the Cape with a crew of around 300, and two passengers.
"I sailed many years before the mast, with a crew that was mostlyArab."
The steam engine was not used to power the ship, but permitted her to be sailed with a smaller crew of only 11 hands.
It sails with a small crew as the ship is completely computerized and controlled automatically.
Blyth sailed with a crew of just 20 men, downsized from the 35 or so he might have needed a few decades ago.
He set out to learn how to sail with a crew and became proficient in Olympic class dinghies.
They could easily sail and operate with half a crew if they had to.