"pantagruel" wrote in message
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Hi,

I've done some day sailing before but not really cruising, and not
anything difficult, I was thinking of buying a new houseboat and
cruising Europe with it, the boats I've got my eye on aren't really
suited to long journeys (most houseboats aren't although these
certainly function fine for short jaunts or going on rivers, lakes and
so forth, there's one I'm looking at that is but my girlfriend is also
casting a vote and she might negate that one) - for example going
directly from Denmark to England would be pretty risky (even waiting
clear weather) so I was thinking about basically doing fairly short
trips along the coasts on the supposition that I won't get into
conditions I can't handle, but obviously this is still somewhat risky,
even a day out can turn bad.
This would of course make a trip between various parts of europe
loooong (main parts that I am thinking of - (Norway, Denmark,
Amsterdam, Belgium, England, Portugal, Italy) as I have connections to
these. Obviously to do it the way I am thinking of would also
basically mean hitting every country in between for stopovers if
conditions were not good.

Obviously I realize I will have to do quite a lot of preparation to do
this. The question is whether I should nix the plan because it is just
too dangerous, I'm personally rating it not exactly dangerous but not
clever either, just a compromise between choices.

Any advice, including of course just buy the good boat, I could use
that to help convince my girlfriend of it.


My brother-in-law owned a houseboat for three years . His insurance said he
had to stay in the harbour...or operate it on a lake. No open ocean
motoring allowed. Too bad because we have a whole string of beautiful bays,
coves & harbours each less than a days sail apart.