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Terry K wrote:

Agree.

For denizens here, cruising means sailing with no timetable, schedule
or destination.

A voyage is taking the boat from splash in to mooring. Then the
cruising can begin.

For those who cannot be sailing, I reccommend this You Tube sailing
kite camera

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKGup...elated&search= the
music is Enya, "Orinoco flow."

I love this!

Terry K

Philosophically I totally agree with you.

However... there is sometimes the constraint of a specific holiday
period, which has to be matched with the wife's holiday. Furthermore...

Other variables may include: the flood starts at dawn; it will cancel
the river current for a period of two hours; the ebb will follow for a
period of six hours with a tidal current of 7 knots on a spring tide,
the tidal current starts 1.5 hour after slack; there is a fait amount of
maritime traffic; often there is fog; the channel runs between two rocky
shoals, at this point it is narrow and the freighters are steaming at 20
knots so watch behind your shoulder.

I like dealing with all these variables to get the boat and crew safely
from point A to point B. If you can sail with no timetable, schedule, or
destination, you sail in a beautiful playground.

Have fun