"Roger Long" wrote in message
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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.

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Roger Long

The standard, well-known, and universally accepted definition of cruising is
to fix your boat in exotic locations.

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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

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.

"Bill Kearney" wrote in message
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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.

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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"Capt. JG" wrote in
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"Bill Kearney" wrote in message
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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

"Geoff Schultz" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in
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"Bill Kearney" wrote in message
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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.


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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"Capt. JG" wrote in
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"Geoff Schultz" wrote in message
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"Capt. JG" wrote in
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"Bill Kearney" wrote in message
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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

"Geoff Schultz" wrote in message
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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.

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"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

Geoff Schultz wrote in
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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



Don't forget to include the bribe money you had to give the local custom's
thieves to let the toilet seal off the airplane....

"Bill Kearney" wrote in
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Eh, to OWN a boat is to be fixing it, location doesn't make a
difference.



You, obviously, haven't had to pay $500 to pump out 15 gallons of sewage in
Tortola to get to the toilet parts. FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS divided by 15
gallons = $US33.33/gallon for SEWAGE.

Location DOES make a difference!

On 2008-02-23 02:39:44 -0500, Larry said:

"Bill Kearney" wrote in
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Eh, to OWN a boat is to be fixing it, location doesn't make a difference.

You, obviously, haven't had to pay $500 to pump out 15 gallons of
sewage in Tortola to get to the toilet parts. FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS
divided by 15 gallons = $US33.33/gallon for SEWAGE.

Location DOES make a difference!

Ain't no chance that I'd pay that much to clear a head.

Ain't no chance that one of my crew, even though they screwed up, would
pay that extortion. I *sound* like Captain Bligh in my BVI pages
(intentionally), but that's only to cover for my bad days when I
realize I can't live there forever and am incredibly depressed.

If you or your crew called in outside help, it simply shows your lack
of experience.

Head maintenance ain't nearly rocket science.

--
Jere Lull
Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD
Xan's pages: http://web.mac.com/jerelull/iWeb/Xan/
Our BVI trips & tips: http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/