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wrote in news:hsfso1hmstopt3gh51ij367tffn8cmhkov@
4ax.com:

How long does this take

Oh, oh....

This isn't a sailing question. If this is a consideration, take a
plane....

A sailboat isn't a mode of transportation from A to B and has nothing to
do with time-between-points, unless you're in a sailboat race, of course.
Arrival is simply the unfortunate end of a sailing experience, necessary
to replenish money, food, parts that break, etc. Sailing is all that
matters.

Never take anyone out in your sailboat that just HAS to "get there". Buy
him or her a plane ticket and tell them you'll call them IF you ever
arrive at THEIR destination, at all. Never try to be "on time" at some
destination because that forces you to pass up anything of interest in
between where you are now and where they will be when their plane touches
down so they can get on with their lives. On this trip, for instance,
you may fall in love with some place or people you encounter and decide
to stay a "few years" or never make it past the place, at all, which is
just fine for "sailors", but not normal, ratraced humans.

One of the finest sailing experiences you can have is to be 182 miles
from some "place" and become becalmed with the sails just hanging limp
for hours on end drifting with the local stream, miles and miles from
anything. The sea calms to nearly flat, you give it all up and furl it
all in and enjoy your 22 hours of dead calm, giving you time to fix a few
things you've broken while heeled over 30 degrees in that gale a week
ago, get plenty of sleep if, in fact, the wind ever does pick up past 1
knot at some point in the future. You have that book that never quite
got read because of the dock parties, too. Now, becalmed, you have time
to read it while those red snapper are grilling for dinner that got
tangled in the fishing lines you put over the side this morning. After
the dishes are packed away after dinner, we'll take our time checking the
newest WEFAX off the HF from Norfolk. Looks like the sunset is going to
be beautiful, tonight. Maybe the wind will freshen after
midnight...maybe not.

Maybe we'll get to XXX by Friday.....maybe not.

Oh, Wow...Wasn't that the prettiest meteor that just streaked past from
SE to NE! (Yawn)....I'll just lay back a few minutes propped up against
the cockpit and rest my eyes before
turni.....n........in.....g....zzzzzzZZZZ