On Feb 7, 6:00*pm, Frogwatch wrote:
Yes, sailing is fun but for getting anywhere it is really slow.
Seriously, only 50 miles in a 10 hour day is slow. *After this cruise,
I may try cruising some other way. *Maybe I'll build a larger Tolman
for cruising. *That way, I will never pay slip fees either. *I have
found that fuel cost is a small part of the cost of boat ownership and
with a Tolman getting 6 mpg and able to go 30 mph, cruising becomes
practical. *She won't cross oceans but would get to the Bahamas and
Dry Tortugas.

When my dad was headed for the phillippenes in WW2, he said that he
and and several compaies were loaded onto an old Dutch steam vessel
that had been converted over to a troop transport which was contracted
to th US govtl

.. The only ventilation was provided by those huge horns on deck and
salt water showers with berths stacked 8 high down in the hold.
Blubbering across the south Pacific at 3-5 kt, he said it was the
sorriest time of his life. It stunk so bad down in the hold courtesy
of all the puke and pee, that most of the time they slept on deck when
they could.


Now that would be Slo-o-o-o-o-ow!