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Need some advice on safety equipment for sailing a little offshore.
Our plan is to charter a boat and sail out of New York for about
200 miles than come back. The idea is to gain some offshore
experience but without taking too much risk.

There will be six of us, three experienced coastal sailors and three
beginners. I have done a little racing offshore (Newport to
Bermuda) and some limited heavy weather sailing but that's it.

The 42' boat will be fairly well equipped with a lifesling,
harnesses etc. but without a few essential items: liferaft, SSB
radio, EPIRB, 2nd VHF. Can we manage without these? We intend to be
at sea for only 4-5 days, so we should have a fairly good idea
about the weather but things can always change.

I expect the biggest problem to be seasickness and fatigue among the
beginners. Any advice on managing that?

This could be fun, or maybe not. In any case I would be interested to hear
what the charter company (or charter individual) had to say about the trip
itself, and also about "required" equipment.

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Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://kerrydeare.home.comcast.net/