On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 23:18:18 -0500,
wrote:

On Tue, 03 Nov 2015 06:36:28 +0700, wrote:

The pitiful thing is that people have made extremely long voyages in
boats smaller than his. Here is a reference to a young Hungarian who
circumnavigated in a 6 metre sail boat. I met the guy in Thailand and
he is a nice down to earth bloke, Not the "look at me, I am a hero
type" at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h167pT8u_Cg

So he could go cruising, if he wanted to do something other then just
play the fool on the Internet.

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Down in the Caribbean islands we've seen boats as small as 22 feet
that have sailed trans-Atlantic from Europe.

Years ago a couple of Brits crossed in an 18 ft. boat and I suspect
that even smaller have by now.

I asked the Hungarian about crossing large bodies of water and he said
something that (I suspect) most people don't think about. He said that
carrying enough food and water meant he had to sleep in the cockpit
for the first part of any crossing because the cabin was full of food,
water and supplies. When I saw him in Phuket, and I'm sure that he had
only come up from Singapore, there was just about enough room in the
cabin to lay down on the floor :-)
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Cheers,

Bruce