And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I found some full time sailors on youtube and they make for interesting viewing and a bit of a reality check... Thousands of miles at 3-6 kts? Important stuff breaks at zero dark 30 and you HAVE to climb the swaying mast to fix it and last but not least, it seems every time they have to have the boat pulled out of the water ($$) it takes months to get everything done.... & more. I decided that it's probably not for me....
What you say is true, but for the typical YT 'sailor'. Most of these have sought the glamour yet without knowing hardly a thing.
Myself having over 50,000 nm of coastal cruising, and unnumbered miles of open ocean passage crisscrossing two oceans (all under sail). I have climbed the mast but once unanticipated and that was at anchor in a somewhat sheltered bay.
Luck or preparedness? I don't believe in, nor count upon, luck. Yet surely are there breaks at sea or simply the foulest of unanticipated events.
For me, in the wealth of miles and years, I count only the once a stove in bow when something struck while hove to in a gale, another having lost a radio antenna due to a bolt having gave way.
I have watched these others lose a keel, a rudder, a mast. Even several who have become so utterly swamped that they must abandon. Their sad luck or my good fortune? For I have not, nor of my fellows, been dealt such a brutal hand.
Preparedness starts at the dock and days or weeks or months afore shoving off.
Why, in one instance, one of those YT 'sailors' lost their little ship while just beyond the harbor on their maiden voyage. Gosh.
I lucked out in having extremely good luck in my Atlantic crossing, but I did not video ANYTHING during the 23 day passage because I didn't want people to see me scared. I did video a bunch on the Cook Islands to Oz passage because it was so nice!
Looks like a wet boat. I spent years sailing and living aboard, I like to be dry and protected from the sun with bimini and dodgers. I'll return to sailing when I can afford 55+ footer and have the time to go back to Fiji.
I found some full time sailors on youtube and they make for interesting viewing and a bit of a reality check...
ReplyDeleteThousands of miles at 3-6 kts? Important stuff breaks at zero dark 30 and you HAVE to climb the swaying mast to fix it and last but not least, it seems every time they have to have the boat pulled out of the water ($$) it takes months to get everything done.... & more.
I decided that it's probably not for me....
What you say is true, but for the typical YT 'sailor'. Most of these have sought the glamour yet without knowing hardly a thing.
DeleteMyself having over 50,000 nm of coastal cruising, and unnumbered miles of open ocean passage crisscrossing two oceans (all under sail). I have climbed the mast but once unanticipated and that was at anchor in a somewhat sheltered bay.
Luck or preparedness? I don't believe in, nor count upon, luck. Yet surely are there breaks at sea or simply the foulest of unanticipated events.
For me, in the wealth of miles and years, I count only the once a stove in bow when something struck while hove to in a gale, another having lost a radio antenna due to a bolt having gave way.
I have watched these others lose a keel, a rudder, a mast. Even several who have become so utterly swamped that they must abandon. Their sad luck or my good fortune? For I have not, nor of my fellows, been dealt such a brutal hand.
Preparedness starts at the dock and days or weeks or months afore shoving off.
Why, in one instance, one of those YT 'sailors' lost their little ship while just beyond the harbor on their maiden voyage. Gosh.
I lucked out in having extremely good luck in my Atlantic crossing, but I did not video ANYTHING during the 23 day passage because I didn't want people to see me scared. I did video a bunch on the Cook Islands to Oz passage because it was so nice!
DeleteGood plan, wrong boat
ReplyDeleteLooks like a wet boat. I spent years sailing and living aboard, I like to be dry and protected from the sun with bimini and dodgers. I'll return to sailing when I can afford 55+ footer and have the time to go back to Fiji.
ReplyDeleteBetter yet a house built on floats in a scenic bay.
ReplyDeleteRead sa comment, maybe here, first couple months is a adventure, next was boring or something like that, next was a prison sentence.
ReplyDeleteIf ya don’t like the neighborhood just haul anchor and find a new cove….
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