Dumb question on single-handed long passages

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Dan

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Evan Gatehouse wrote:

Ships can come over the horizon in about 10 minutes to your position
if moving at say 22 knots.

AFAIK the horizon is 22 odd miles away. A ship moving at 22kts would
therefore take about an hour to get to you.

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