On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:18:18 -0500, Geoff Schultz
wrote:

All that you've been doing is moving your boat and repairing it
as you go.

I'd be slightly more charitable and call it a "shake down cruise".

It took us about a year of short cruises to work the bugs out of our
boat and have the confidence to take off and live on it for any length
of time. At least there are good service locations most places along
the east coast.