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What is cruising?
"Roger Long" wrote in
: I'm not going to touch the posts in which this came up with a boathook but it is a worthwhile question. With the exception of cruise ship vacations, I think any definition for a group like this has got to be pretty much in accord with standard usage. In this part of the world at least, if you go out in a boat and are not fishing, transporting anything to a specific place (yourself included) and are free to alter your route according to whim, you are cruising. Since there is a word "daysailing" for doing this for short periods, "cruising" must include at least one night spent on board. Power, sail, makes no difference. You just have to sleep aboard and be in "The journey is the destination." mode. The more restrictive definitions proposed would make this a rather uninteresting place, just Geoff and Wayne posting back and forth as near as I can tell. I definitely don't suggest that this group should be limited to only "cruising" discussions! My issue was when people apply extremely limited definitions to the term "cruising" and then claim that anyone who isn't meeting their definition isn't cruising. As someone else stated in here, cruising is about the journey and not the destination. It's the people that you meet along the way and places you visit. It's getting to know an area by sticking around after you find that you're drawn to it. It's fixing complex systems in exotic locations. It's knowing that you can maintain your vessel because you have to do it in places where there's no one else who can do it. It's carrying more spares than you could possibly have imagined before you started cruising. It's turning your sleak, beautiful boat into something less beautiful as you load it down with wind generator, solar panels, fuel jugs, etc. It's visiting local markets and hauling groceries down dusty roads. It's doing your laundry in little laundromats and catching hell when it gets wet on the way back to the boat in the dinghy. It's having your boat look like a Chinese laundry when you do laundry at anchor. It's dealing with officials in foreign countries where you don't speak the language. It's beautiful sunrises and wonderful sunsets enhanced by good friends and cocktails in the cockpit. It's catching your dinner off the back of your boat. It's potluck dinners on the beach with groups of cruisers that you've never met before and it's having your (new/good) friends over for dinner. It's days when you wonder if the wind will ever stop howling and other days when you can't wait for a breath of air to appear. It's lovely nights on a satin anchorage and other nights praying that the anchor holds. It's the days that you always dream of as you're flying along on a broad reach behind a reef and it's bashing your way into seas and counting the hours until you find shelter. It's 99% tedium and 1% sheer terror. It's huge learning curves and wondering how you ever survived when you first started. It's keeping up with friends that you met along the way and sharing those common bonds. It's desolate anchorages and pulling into a marina where you're stuck among all of the pretty boats that never leave the dock and having those people look at you like you're the Beverly Hillbillies because you're a cruising boat. It's day hops along a coast and multi-day passages. It's lots of stuff that I forgot to put in here or haven't experienced yet. The vast majority of cruising has very little to do with moving a boat as most of your time is spent at anchor. It's learning to live on a boat in a foreign location. Cruising is lots of things to different people. Have an open mind and go experience it for yourself. Once you've been out there for a few years, I think that you'll be much less judgmental. -- Geoff www.GeoffSchultz.org |
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What is cruising?
Geoff Schultz wrote:
"Roger Long" wrote in : I'm not going to touch the posts in which this came up with a boathook but it is a worthwhile question. With the exception of cruise ship vacations, I think any definition for a group like this has got to be pretty much in accord with standard usage. In this part of the world at least, if you go out in a boat and are not fishing, transporting anything to a specific place (yourself included) and are free to alter your route according to whim, you are cruising. Since there is a word "daysailing" for doing this for short periods, "cruising" must include at least one night spent on board. Power, sail, makes no difference. You just have to sleep aboard and be in "The journey is the destination." mode. The more restrictive definitions proposed would make this a rather uninteresting place, just Geoff and Wayne posting back and forth as near as I can tell. I definitely don't suggest that this group should be limited to only "cruising" discussions! My issue was when people apply extremely limited definitions to the term "cruising" and then claim that anyone who isn't meeting their definition isn't cruising. As someone else stated in here, cruising is about the journey and not the destination. It's the people that you meet along the way and places you visit. It's getting to know an area by sticking around after you find that you're drawn to it. It's fixing complex systems in exotic locations. It's knowing that you can maintain your vessel because you have to do it in places where there's no one else who can do it. It's carrying more spares than you could possibly have imagined before you started cruising. It's turning your sleak, beautiful boat into something less beautiful as you load it down with wind generator, solar panels, fuel jugs, etc. It's visiting local markets and hauling groceries down dusty roads. It's doing your laundry in little laundromats and catching hell when it gets wet on the way back to the boat in the dinghy. It's having your boat look like a Chinese laundry when you do laundry at anchor. It's dealing with officials in foreign countries where you don't speak the language. It's beautiful sunrises and wonderful sunsets enhanced by good friends and cocktails in the cockpit. It's catching your dinner off the back of your boat. It's potluck dinners on the beach with groups of cruisers that you've never met before and it's having your (new/good) friends over for dinner. It's days when you wonder if the wind will ever stop howling and other days when you can't wait for a breath of air to appear. It's lovely nights on a satin anchorage and other nights praying that the anchor holds. It's the days that you always dream of as you're flying along on a broad reach behind a reef and it's bashing your way into seas and counting the hours until you find shelter. It's 99% tedium and 1% sheer terror. It's huge learning curves and wondering how you ever survived when you first started. It's keeping up with friends that you met along the way and sharing those common bonds. It's desolate anchorages and pulling into a marina where you're stuck among all of the pretty boats that never leave the dock and having those people look at you like you're the Beverly Hillbillies because you're a cruising boat. It's day hops along a coast and multi-day passages. It's lots of stuff that I forgot to put in here or haven't experienced yet. The vast majority of cruising has very little to do with moving a boat as most of your time is spent at anchor. It's learning to live on a boat in a foreign location. Cruising is lots of things to different people. Have an open mind and go experience it for yourself. Once you've been out there for a few years, I think that you'll be much less judgmental. -- Geoff www.GeoffSchultz.org Thanks Geoff. I had about decided to blow off "cruising" and just go sailing instead. Richard |
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What is cruising?
"Roger Long" wrote in message
... I'm not going to touch the posts in which this came up with a boathook but it is a worthwhile question. With the exception of cruise ship vacations, I think any definition for a group like this has got to be pretty much in accord with standard usage. In this part of the world at least, if you go out in a boat and are not fishing, transporting anything to a specific place (yourself included) and are free to alter your route according to whim, you are cruising. Since there is a word "daysailing" for doing this for short periods, "cruising" must include at least one night spent on board. Power, sail, makes no difference. You just have to sleep aboard and be in "The journey is the destination." mode. The more restrictive definitions proposed would make this a rather uninteresting place, just Geoff and Wayne posting back and forth as near as I can tell. -- Roger Long The standard, well-known, and universally accepted definition of cruising is to fix your boat in exotic locations. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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What is cruising?
The standard, well-known, and universally accepted definition of cruising
is to fix your boat in exotic locations. Eh, to OWN a boat is to be fixing it, location doesn't make a difference. |
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What is cruising?
"Bill Kearney" wrote in message
... The standard, well-known, and universally accepted definition of cruising is to fix your boat in exotic locations. Eh, to OWN a boat is to be fixing it, location doesn't make a difference. True, but cruising is fixing it in places other than the home port. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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What is cruising?
"Capt. JG" wrote in
: "Bill Kearney" wrote in message ... The standard, well-known, and universally accepted definition of cruising is to fix your boat in exotic locations. Eh, to OWN a boat is to be fixing it, location doesn't make a difference. True, but cruising is fixing it in places other than the home port. And probably one of the items that I left out of my list is paying outrageous sums of money to have parts shipped into your exotic location. -- Geoff www.GeoffSchultz.org |
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What is cruising?
"Geoff Schultz" wrote in message
.. . "Capt. JG" wrote in : "Bill Kearney" wrote in message ... The standard, well-known, and universally accepted definition of cruising is to fix your boat in exotic locations. Eh, to OWN a boat is to be fixing it, location doesn't make a difference. True, but cruising is fixing it in places other than the home port. And probably one of the items that I left out of my list is paying outrageous sums of money to have parts shipped into your exotic location. -- Geoff www.GeoffSchultz.org Heh... I watched that happen in the Med., which wasn't really *that* exotic. Fortunately, I wasn't the one paying. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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What is cruising?
"Capt. JG" wrote in
: "Geoff Schultz" wrote in message .. . "Capt. JG" wrote in : "Bill Kearney" wrote in message ... The standard, well-known, and universally accepted definition of cruising is to fix your boat in exotic locations. Eh, to OWN a boat is to be fixing it, location doesn't make a difference. True, but cruising is fixing it in places other than the home port. And probably one of the items that I left out of my list is paying outrageous sums of money to have parts shipped into your exotic location. -- Geoff www.GeoffSchultz.org Heh... I watched that happen in the Med., which wasn't really *that* exotic. Fortunately, I wasn't the one paying. The degree of exoticness is directly proportional to the amount that the shipping company charges to get a package there! :-) I unfortunately have several stories where the cost of the shipping/duty/taxi exceeds the cost of the item by several multiples. -- Geoff www.GeoffSchultz.org |
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What is cruising?
"Roger Long" wrote in message ... I'm not going to touch the posts in which this came up with a boathook but it is a worthwhile question. With the exception of cruise ship vacations, I think any definition for a group like this has got to be pretty much in accord with standard usage. In this part of the world at least, if you go out in a boat and are not fishing, transporting anything to a specific place (yourself included) and are free to alter your route according to whim, you are cruising. Since there is a word "daysailing" for doing this for short periods, "cruising" must include at least one night spent on board. Power, sail, makes no difference. You just have to sleep aboard and be in "The journey is the destination." mode. The more restrictive definitions proposed would make this a rather uninteresting place, just Geoff and Wayne posting back and forth as near as I can tell. -- Roger Long == Roger,, had some time to think on this one .. I'm sure you read a number of boating, sailing magazines, we all do I think. I like Good Old Boat, DYI, and Latitudes & Attitudes. Oh, and the one you write for Points East. The type of cruising L&A recommends is very different from what Points East would write about. If I had to chose? L&A. Why? Because for me, cruising is about long trips, sun, Jimmy Buffet, beaches, babes, .. that whole scene. I love Maine, and sailing in Maine. But, the weather sucks, fog sucks, the season is twenty minutes long. Even in the middle of summer, it gets cold on my boat at night. So; in answer to your question. Cruising is what ever you want it to be. I have my opinion, and others have theirs. I do admire those sailors like the Pardeys who have sailed all over the world, long distances across open ocean, and as such; I put them on a pedestal. These are folks who have experienced a broad range of cruising lifestyle circumstances. Good weather, bad weather. Anchorages all over the world. On and on. |
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What is cruising?
"Geoff Schultz" wrote in message
.. . The degree of exoticness is directly proportional to the amount that the shipping company charges to get a package there! :-) I unfortunately have several stories where the cost of the shipping/duty/taxi exceeds the cost of the item by several multiples. -- Geoff www.GeoffSchultz.org And then, there's just plain stingy... had an owner (a very rich one) insist on bringing every frikin' sail he owned on a delivery when it wouldn't have cost him that much to ship them in a container. As a result, we were walking, slipping, falling on sails for 2 weeks. I think we had near 2 dozen sails on that boat. Fortunately, the weather was mild, so it wasn't truly dangerous. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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