On Apr 24, 3:19 am, "Roger Long" wrote:

Last year, a professional
delivery captain took a friend's 45 foot Beneteau out of Bermuda with three
strong guys. Four days later, they were taking a 300 mile chopper ride home
leaving the boat... The series of little disturbances they encountered didn't even make
the news.

I wonder how much of a role the acclimatization of many thousands of miles
to the motion and lifestyle played.

Roger


Hi Roger:

Since no one else stepped in I give my 2 cents.
About your thought. Id say its got everything to do with it. In fact,
I have two words: "Sea Legs."

I would guess 99% of the "globe girdling experienced cruisers with
1000s of miles under their keels" and most the delivery operators out
there are simply just experienced day sailors. Or at least the ones
I've met. Lets face it, when cursing most are never out more than 2
weeks at a time until they pull in someplace. There was a time when I
spent 80-95 consecutive days at sea. Some of the boats were big others
80' workboats. This was typically fall-winters in the Bering and
NorPac the remainder..... Ugg.

I usually spent the first day barfing, day two dry heaves and
horizontal, day three recovery and rehydrate. At about 2 weeks I was
feeling pretty frisky. However, I really did not get 100%
(acclimatization) until the end of 60-70 days out. It really took 2
months for me to get my sea legs. After my 3rd trip I realized that I
had to be exceptionally careful for those first few weeks cause all my
accidents occurred then. For example bruised shins and bumped and
bashed head; pinched, crushed, or cut fingers and, all the slips and
stumbles... etc. If I pussy footed around for a few weeks I did not
have to care for all the painful cuts and bashes for the remainder of
the cruise.

For the last five years I've only "day sailed" my boat. At the end of
this summer I'm gone. First thing im going to do is sail out 100 miles
then heave-to off shore for three weeks. Then..... go sailing. May
sound weird, but I believe so strongly that people must get acclimated
to enjoy a sail safely and for me that means at least three weeks.

Yea, so how does some grandma in a little boat able to cruise all over
world when other manly "sailors" were abandoning ship?

Bob