"Roger Long" wrote in message
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"Geoff Schultz" wrote

So until you start posting from your boat that you're moving from port to
port, don't you
dare claim that Skip isn't cruising.


Hear, hear. Well said.

--
Roger Long
(Posting from the comfort of his office


If I follow ............. then no one should post anything here because our
opinion isn't
of value.

Cruising in the way I think of it, is long trips across open ocean. Coastal
sailing, which is
what I do, is not in the same category.

Why shouldn't I "dare" to call what Skip is doing Coastal Sailing and what
folks who sail across
the open ocean Cruising? That is why I read the postings here,, to see if I
learn something and to
post an opinion.

I dare to call what Skip is doing :: Coastal Cruising, living on a boat.

Nothing wrong with that. Good for Skip..

But :: for Skip to say;; "As before, I invite you to tell us of where
you've cruised in the last
- say - year...We're out doing it..."

As an answer to someone who challenges his knowledge of a channel ..

He is opening up the subject of what true Cruising is.

If, for example, Skip had sailed from Florida to Antigua for Sailing week,
and anyone "dared" to question his
cruising status, then I would side with Skip.

But for Skip, who has really only gone up and down the coast, to challenge a
sailor as if he is a world
ocean crossing skipper .. I don't think he has earned his Cruising Stripes
yet.

Just my opinion.