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Originally Posted by tevake
Thanks for posting that "realities of boat life ". Video, Jolly.
Those folks seemed to be headed for a crash course in the demands sailing / cruising.
And yet they are now 1/3 of the way around the world. The luck of the innocent I guess.
Buy the boat, take a five day course, head out. Yikes!
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Well, they actually spent a few years poking around in the Bahamas and Caribbean before heading for Panama. And sometime luck will help overcome innocence.
A friend of mine worked with a guy who bought a boat in California and wanted to sail it home to Australia. My friend went out with him a few times off California and was scared to death vowing never to sail with him again. Fast forward a year or so and the guy contacts my friend from Fiji. His crew had abandoned him and he needed someone to crew for him. He decided that if the guy made it that far he would risk it. He went down and joined him and found the guy had become a competent sailor. They hit some bad weather on their passage to Christ Church and did great. He went ahead and sailed with him across the Tasman Sea where they really hit nasty stuff. He now really holds the guy in high regard.