On Feb 21, 6:04 am, "Sir Thomas of Cannondale"
wrote:
... If I follow ............. then no one should post anything here because our
opinion isn't of value.

I don't think you follow or perhaps you're indulging in a bit of
hyperbole. Please keep posting.

... 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. ...

I don't really follow this. If I sail to Vava'u from New Zealand on
my boat and then spend a month or two bobbing around in the anchorages
(many of them just a few tens of yards apart) am I cruising? Is the
person who flies in and charters a boat and bobs around the same
anchorages for the same amount of time not cruising? If I deliver a
boat from New Zealand to Vava'u and then fly back am I cruising? To
me cases one and two are probably cruising and three probably isn't...

Why shouldn't I "dare" to call what Skip is doing Coastal Sailing and what
folks who sail across
the open ocean Cruising? ..

Dare, dare! Seems to me though that the essence of cruising isn't
particularly about a person's or boat's ability to go offshore.
Certainly, there is a distinction between coastal sailing and ocean
passage making, but you can do both without cruising and either can be
cruising...

-- Tom.