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How to get experience so that I can escape?
Also, complicating matters, I will more than likely be bringing my
girlfriend along, who also has no experience sailing. And be sure you're prepared to end up spending ALL your time together. Be sure there's enough airfare handy to put her back on a plane home WHEN she gets sick of the idea. |
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In article .com,
"cruisenews" wrote: Get a +/- 30 foot boat that was well taken care of by the previous owner and is set up for cruising. There are usually a couple of these for sale in most harbors. Choose an area that is easy to cruise in and has lots of nice anchorages and port towns, say, Chesapeake Bay, the Carolinas or coastal New England. Don't make any big hops, just sail from harbor to harbor during the day. Try to anchor out as much as possible and use the dinghy. Stay in the harbor if the weather is bad, in fact, just have fun and hang around in the harbors and wait till the time is just right to sail on to the next. When you meet other sailors, always take the opportunity to sail with them and see how they have their boat set up. Do this for at least 2 months before you buy a bigger boat. It may be a little like camping at first, but you will learn a lot, quickly and any beginner mistakes will be made with a low cost boat. You can also learn a lot from sailing logs, he http://cruisenews.net/voyagelogs.html http://cruisenews.net/shipsatsea.html Dang! Almost exactly what I was going to say! "No one" wants 30' boats, so there are many for sail, for cheap. I have seen quite a few for under $15k; I helped survey one I'd take to the Bahamas in a second that sold for $3,500. That'll leave a LOT of bucks in the cruising kitty even after you've replaced or upgraded everything. Nice thing about a small boat is you can't go TOO crazy as you don't have the room. The Chesapeake would be an excellent starting point: Lots of easy legs for you to get experience, a few that'll give you proper respect for Momma, an easy shake-down of both boat and crew, with a multitude of repair shops -- you will have things to repair/replace, part of the drill, so get used to it while you can call TowBoat/US. After a while, you'll find yourself drifting south most likely. The ICW (intra-coastal waterway) is a scenic, easy route to FL for a jump to the Bahamas, where you've got another 3-6 months of slightly more challenging conditions than the Chesapeake. By that time, you'll know enough to decide your next step(s) intelligently. Friend of mine did just that, with far less nest-egg. Was the trip of his life --and he'd done a couple of years' beachcombing in Tahiti, for an instance. (Unluckily, he died soon after he'd returned to fatten the cruising kitty.) JUST DON'T RUSH! Stop and get to know the locals, explore the gunkholes and enjoy life. If it ain't fun --for both of you-- you're doing something wrong. -- Jere Lull Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD) Xan's Pages: http://members.dca.net/jerelull/X-Main.html Our BVI FAQs (290+ pics) http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/ |
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On 25 Jan 2006 01:57:45 -0800, "purple_stars"
wrote: haha thanks rhys hey, i was wondering something too ... could you recommend some good books to read ? you mentioned some magazines in your post that you like but i'd like some books, i'm betting you know practical no non-sense stuff i'd like. so far i've liked "how to sail around the world" by hal roth, i've read that one a lot. and also the book, well, i can't remember the title now, but it was by tania aebi, a young lady who sailed around the world, that book was awesome. actually it was so good i'm going to get the title in case someone else wants to read it. ok, it was "maiden voyage". i've read some other ones but those really stand out as ones i loved. know of any others ? anybody else know any other good ones ? thanks in advance. I like the older cruiser books and guides, because they did it without GPS, refrigeration, current charts or even Dacron sails in some cases. Consequently, you learn how to run the boat with your eyes, ears,pencils bits of string and well-applied muscle, instead of chartplotters, power winches and SeaTow. Check out old hardcovers by the Smeetons, by Eric Hiscock and if you like philosophy, The Long Way by Moitessier. There's a ton of "guides" out there. The Complete Yachtmaster by Tom Cunliffe is good. The Annapolis Guide to Seamanship by John Rosmaniere is standard, if basic, and Heavy Weather Sailing (the current edition) is essential for going offshore. If you like technical, "Desirable and Undesirable Characteristics of Offshore Yachts" is great, and if you like chatty but practical, the Pardeys and Don Street's Caribbean guides plus The Ocean Going Yacht are good. For recreation, you'll want all 20 of the Aubrey-Maturin books by Patrick O'Brian. That's a start. R. |
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How to get experience so that I can escape?
rhys wrote:
I like the older cruiser books and guides, because they did it without GPS, refrigeration, current charts or even Dacron sails in some cases. The best in this vein (in my opinion, which is surely different from everyone else's) is 'Yacht Cruising' by Claude Worth. The technology is early 20th century, the culture described at times is charmingly different, but the essentials of seamanship are unchanging. I believe the later editions added material up through 1934, but I'm not sure of that part. The local libraries have a smattering of the earlier ones. |
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