wrote:
On Sat, 03 Aug 2013 16:35:31 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

Rough calculations show something like 800 days actually underway
since we bought the trawler 9 years ago. Not all of that was blue
water of course, maybe half. In terms of actual time onboard,
probably about 40 months. I've also done a fair amount of blue water
sailing over the years, enough to have a sailing endorsement on my
USCG ticket.

I have about 9000 hours clocked on my current boat but most of it was
in places where I could wade ashore and walk home.

All of my USCG time put together was a few months but some of it was
pretty exciting (North Atlantic in the winter sort of thing)
My Navy time was all ashore.

I had no urge to spend my life at sea. Why I turned down a chance to go to
the Calif Maritime Academy in my youth. Figure that was foolish now. Lots
of jobs that did not require all that time at sea.