On Feb 21, 4:29 pm, "Roger Long" wrote:
I'm not going to touch the posts in which this came up with a boathook but
it is a worthwhile question.
...[you're cruising] if you go out in a boat and are not
fishing, transporting anything to a specific place (yourself included) and
are free to alter your route according to whim, [and]... include at least one
night spent on board. ...

I think that even that is too restrictive. Some pretty serious
cruising was done around the turn of the last century in canoe yawls
but those cruisers inevitably camped ashore. Even if folks found
accommodation ashore I think they'd be cruising if they didn't return
to their home port at the end of the day. How about this:

"You're cruising if you go out in a boat of any kind for pleasure and
with no commercial purpose and spend at least one night away from your
home port."


The more restrictive definitions proposed would make this a rather
uninteresting place, just Geoff and Wayne posting back and forth as near as
I can tell.

Hey, I think I'd qualify!

-- Tom.