Rosalie B. wrote:
Larry wrote:


Rosalie B. wrote in
m:


Yes but Bob is going to be 71 in March, he's had a heart attack, and
our boat is a CSY 44


You two shouldn't even leave the slip without at LEAST TWO, Strong YOUNG
hands who know how to sail it without you.


Well that's as may be.

Although I think I could run the boat by myself if I absolutely had to
(we have both been working out at the gym this winter, so I'm more fit
than I was), and especially I can motor, and work the autopilot and
all the communications stuff, get the weather and navigate. I can
also turn the engine on and I know how to anchor..

At the worst, I know how to call for help on the radio

Mostly I don't want Bob singlehanding, but if it comes to a point
where he is pigheaded enough to go without me when I don't think going
is safe then I will have a hard decision to make. Let him go and
perhaps die?

Maybe you could find an acceptable compromise by
insisting that you would like to go along, but you
also want a third (or fourth) crew along as well.
I think there are quite a few unpaid
volunteers available if you look around far enough
in advance, and you can always hire a licensed
captain to accompany you if desperate. Some of
them are looking to build sea time, and are
available quite inexpensively. A lot of bareboat
charter companys maintain lists of independent
captains.

I am assuming that it is the passages that you are
most worried about, and not gunkholing around the
islands.


Don W.