Karen Smith wrote one line that was not a personal attack and therefore
worth repeating:

Besides lots of cruisers "passage make" on a
250 mile range, coastal passage making is as valid as ocean crossing.

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See my comment about "Coastal cruiser, OK".

Don't know about down in your section of the planet, but nobody up here
routinely refers to a
boat with very short range as a "passage maker". I was just guessing
that the range might be 250 nm at 20kt. Bet I'm not all that far off,
though.

Yeah, you can define crossing the local reservoir as a "passage"- but
not in the classic or most widely accepted sense of the word.