Wilbur Hubbard wrote:

"Roger Long" wrote in message
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Wayne.B wrote:

The OP was talking about crossing oceans and living aboard, not
coastal cruising.

Oh, so he was. Something about the "new to boating" in the subject
line made me overlook that.

Rest assured that anybody who posts to rec.boats.cruising to get advice
will NEVER cross oceans. Too stupid to ask 1) the right questions, 2)
the right people.

Still, Donna Lange had completed her circumnavigation in a 28 footer
and she probably didn't know any more four years ago than this fellow
does now.

Donna Lange at least had a clue about what constitutes a seaworthy
boat. Doesn't she sail a double ender Southern Cross? And, according to
her website, she's not done with her circumnavigation just yet
http://www.donnalange.com/statusupdate.html

Finances are key to that independent lifestyle he talks about. Boats
eat up money fast as we all know only too well. Unless he has a lot
of independent income, holding down the money drain by going small
might be worth more discomfort in big seas.

Finances are, indeed, important. But a seaworthy boat is more important.
Better to spend the farm getting a decent boat even if you have to work
your way around like old Joshua Slocum did. As for the OP. Forget about
him/her. Just another ignorant dreamer without the right stuff. That's
evident just from the ignorant questions in the short post. You can tell
a lot about a person just by how the questions, even if answered in
great detail, don't comprise a coherent body of thought or a particular
direction.

I don't think you can tell much about the person by the questions they
ask, except for how little they know. Part of the difficulty of learning
anything, no matter how smart you are, is asking the right questions.

Basically everyone who is starting to learn something is virtually
guaranteed to ask some stupid questions.

It's people who refuse to ask stupid questions who stay stupid.

Stephen