On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 16:07:00 -0500, DSK wrote:
Everyone wants to dream about crossing
oceans, and want a boat that they *could* do it in, if they weren't tied
down with commuter traffic, mortgage payments, & committee meetings.

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Those are some of the excuses. The reality is that offshore sailing
is a darn tough way to travel unless you can always arrange for fair
weather, down wind conditions. After 2 or 3 days of bashing into head
seas, healed over at 20 to 30 degrees, with the interior of the boat
beginning to resemble a rain forest, smelling like a barnyard, and the
owner nursing broken ribs from being cabin tossed, a lot of the
romance goes out of it.