Who here has been in the middle of an ocean?

Even Better who here has crossed an Ocean?

For 2 ASA points.

Why would anyone want to be out in the middle of an ocean?

Bonus question

For those old timers here they might remember me asking this question
as the first question I ever posted here, and BTW I never got a
straight answer. I ask you this. If you were to sail around the world
would you go east or west? Why?

BTW Ol Thom, when I asked that question, you said that a friend of
yours had just died , and he asked that very same question...who was
that?

Joe

"Joe" wrote
| If you were to sail around the world
| would you go east or west? Why?



I can answer that one for ya. In the northern hemisphere there's too many continents in the way
to sail around the world. If you try to sail north of them you run into solid ice. You can sail around
the world in the southern hemisphere because there's enough room. You sail between Antarctica and
the Horn and Good Hope and Luellen. Down there the prevailing winds blow from west to east. So the
direction to sail easiest is west to east. That answers the *why*. My namesake is an expert at this!


Cheers,
Ellen

Joe wrote:
Who here has been in the middle of an ocean?


raise hand

Even Better who here has crossed an Ocean?


raise hand

For 2 ASA points.

Why would anyone want to be out in the middle of an ocean?


'cuz it's cool?
Cleanest & healthiest air on the planet?
Study pelagic species?
Widest & least light-polluted sky?


Bonus question

For those old timers here they might remember me asking this question
as the first question I ever posted here, and BTW I never got a
straight answer. I ask you this. If you were to sail around the world
would you go east or west? Why?


Umm, you can't go straight & still sail around the world.
You have to make some turns. Maybe that's why you didn't get
a straight answer?

Personally I have no interest in "sailing around the world"
as some kind of bragging-rights stunt. It is easiest &
fastest to go west-to-east because of prevailing winds &
currents.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

DSK wrote:
Joe wrote:
Who here has been in the middle of an ocean?


raise hand

Even Better who here has crossed an Ocean?


raise hand

For 2 ASA points.

Why would anyone want to be out in the middle of an ocean?


'cuz it's cool?
Cleanest & healthiest air on the planet?
Study pelagic species?
Widest & least light-polluted sky?

I thought in the middle of the rain forest has the best air on earth.
Would you stury the Mesopelagic, bathypelagic, Abyssopelagic or the
Hatydel Zone?

I think the haydel would be the most fun and interesting, maybe hook a
cracken.


Bonus question

For those old timers here they might remember me asking this question
as the first question I ever posted here, and BTW I never got a
straight answer. I ask you this. If you were to sail around the world
would you go east or west? Why?


Umm, you can't go straight & still sail around the world.
You have to make some turns. Maybe that's why you didn't get
a straight answer?

Personally I have no interest in "sailing around the world"
as some kind of bragging-rights stunt. It is easiest &
fastest to go west-to-east because of prevailing winds &
currents.


Bragging stunt, or true measurement and accomplishment?

Joe


Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Joe wrote:
Who here has been in the middle of an ocean?

Yo.

Even Better who here has crossed an Ocean?

Yo.

For 2 ASA points.

Why would anyone want to be out in the middle of an ocean?

Because they pay me well to do it.....

For those old timers here they might remember me asking this question
as the first question I ever posted here, and BTW I never got a
straight answer. I ask you this. If you were to sail around the world
would you go east or west?

West.

Why?

Because there's bugger-all east of me except a lot of windy cold water.

But your question is too simplistic. I could go east, then north. I
could go north, then west. Or I could just go east, which would be the
shortest & fastest way. Depends on what you're trying to achieve. If it
was just bragging rights, I'd go east. If I had heaps of time, I'd go
north then west through Torres Strait.

Cornell's Ocean Passages of the World has been the subject of many
discussions & arguments while we've been at sea.

PDW

In article .com,
Joe wrote:
Who here has been in the middle of an ocean?

Even Better who here has crossed an Ocean?

Croseed a sea, but not an ocean. Only out to about 200 NM on the
PAcific.

For 2 ASA points.

Why would anyone want to be out in the middle of an ocean?

So you don't hit land?

Bonus question

For those old timers here they might remember me asking this question
as the first question I ever posted here, and BTW I never got a
straight answer. I ask you this. If you were to sail around the world
would you go east or west? Why?

I'd sail west, because there's land east.

BTW Ol Thom, when I asked that question, you said that a friend of
yours had just died , and he asked that very same question...who was
that?

Joe



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Capt. JG @@
www.sailnow.com

Peter wrote:
Joe wrote:
Who here has been in the middle of an ocean?

Yo.
Which one's?

Even Better who here has crossed an Ocean?

Yo.


For 2 ASA points.

Why would anyone want to be out in the middle of an ocean?

Because they pay me well to do it.....
Would you go again on your boat?



For those old timers here they might remember me asking this question
as the first question I ever posted here, and BTW I never got a
straight answer. I ask you this. If you were to sail around the world
would you go east or west?

West.

Why?

Because there's bugger-all east of me except a lot of windy cold water.

But your question is too simplistic. I could go east, then north. I
could go north, then west. Or I could just go east, which would be the
shortest & fastest way. Depends on what you're trying to achieve. If it
was just bragging rights, I'd go east. If I had heaps of time, I'd go
north then west through Torres Strait.

Cornell's Ocean Passages of the World has been the subject of many
discussions & arguments while we've been at sea.

Good book, I have a copy here.

joe

PDW

Jonathan Ganz wrote:
In article .com,
Joe wrote:
Who here has been in the middle of an ocean?

Even Better who here has crossed an Ocean?

Croseed a sea, but not an ocean. Only out to about 200 NM on the
PAcific.

Thats a nice jaunt offshore, what were you doning, heading to the sea
of cortez?

For 2 ASA points.

Why would anyone want to be out in the middle of an ocean?

So you don't hit land?

Thats true, but ...

Bonus question

For those old timers here they might remember me asking this question
as the first question I ever posted here, and BTW I never got a
straight answer. I ask you this. If you were to sail around the world
would you go east or west? Why?

I'd sail west, because there's land east.

you could go south than east thru the canal.

Joe

BTW Ol Thom, when I asked that question, you said that a friend of
yours had just died , and he asked that very same question...who was
that?

Joe



--
Capt. JG @@
www.sailnow.com

OzOne wrote:
On 19 Sep 2006 17:29:17 -0700, "Joe"
scribbled thusly:

Who here has been in the middle of an ocean?

Uh Huh..a few actually.

Which ones?

Even Better who here has crossed an Ocean?

Also a few.

For 2 ASA points.

Why would anyone want to be out in the middle of an ocean?

Ya gotta be there!

Yes you do....Why..what impressed you the most?

Joe


Bonus question

For those old timers here they might remember me asking this question
as the first question I ever posted here, and BTW I never got a
straight answer. I ask you this. If you were to sail around the world
would you go east or west? Why?

From here, East.
Prevailing winds and the Pacific is beeeooootiful!
Besides....there's a bloody big rock between me and the Indian.

BTW Ol Thom, when I asked that question, you said that a friend of
yours had just died , and he asked that very same question...who was
that?

Joe



Oz1...of the 3 twins.

I welcome you to crackerbox palace,We've been expecting you.

Joe,

His name was Ed ( for the life of me, I can't remember his Last name) He
was heading for England to pick up his new boat. He was asking which way
was the best way to Travel back to Australia.

I suggested going East on the "Roaring Forties" He agreed but said it
was probably more than he could handle on his own.

We; I, didn't know just how sick he was. He died in England. It was, is,
an unfinished Story!!

Oz, help me! I can't remember ED's last name. I'm in the middle of a
"Senior Moment"




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