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I'm currently reading 2 girls 2 catamarans again, James has a lot to answer for.
I've always liked a bit of a challenge, and I really want to sail the Atlantic, U.K to Caribean.
After a couple of missed opportunities to do it on other peoples boats, I keep coming back to doing it solo in a small boat. Reading about Cooking Fat hasn't helped to discourage me, in fact it just gets me more fired up.
So the big question, what size Wharram would be a reasonable boat to do it on. I recently looked at a 28' Tannenui which looked like plenty of boat to be comfortable on. So probably smaller would be possible.
I'm not looking at setting records less than 6' boats don't interest me, but I also don't want to spend 10 years building a boat that's more than I need. Bearing in mind this might be a one way trip for the boat, sell/burn and fly back kind of deal. Don't think I can afford to take too much time off work and away from the family etc.
thanks for looking
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don't read all this (fake, old books) about this or this record. there will be no naked girl on the beach waiting for you... first landfall, you will hear a gettoblaster with loud reggae rap music and the locals will ask you for money because you drop the anchor in there bay. etc... this books will poison your mind and you will be disappoint. the world changed to dramatical that all this old stuff is still up to date... check this page and read the stories on http://www.noonsite.com/
only the ocean didn't change.... still remote, beauty full and with no pitiless.
sorry guys. i read some of this books too. it is really some stuff you read in a cold winter night way before you go sailing. after you make your own experience, you will not read this stuff any more. it is like any other novel and you can not learn anything out of it...
good luck..
What... no naked women waiting on the beach for the intrepid adventurer....that does it, I'm not going now.
More seriously my request for good books was more to do with worthwhile books on the trans-atlantic routes, navigation, sailing etc. etc.
the noonsite has proved very useful, thanks.
Trips like this can sometimes result in naked women, but they're not usually waiting for you on the beach!
When I first met my wife (27 years ago) my chat-up line was "How do you fancy spending a year sailing to the Caribbean and back?" She'd never sailed before so she didn't know what she was letting herself in for, so much to my surprise she said yes...
Wharrams,grog and women, what's not to like?
A book that i have read that deals with the likes of our cats is one by Thomas Firth Jones; Multihull Voyaging.
Whats all this business about naked women weighting for the yachties on the beach? No one has ever mentioned that, as a reward after an ocean crossing. It happens though, admittedly not often but, some time it happens. A few times I drop the pick in a secluded little bay, one of those places I never been before and to my surprise, discovering a nudist camp ashore and YES, there they were, lovely yang women, star naked, playing volleyball. To my disappointment they didn't invite me to play with them BUT....
I guess this is as good a place as any to post this:
"those who see sailing as an escape from reality have got their understanding of both sailing and reality completely backwards"
from:
http://www.moq.org/forum/Pirsig/cruisingblues.html
Thanks for the link.Yes really worth reading the whole thing through.
Don Dodd's book "This is modern Cruising under Sail" is good on the reality of cruising. His experience of real cruising is evident in his comments on "Failure" ie. the abandoning of cruising plans prematurely. One attitude he associates with failure is an expectation that cruising will be like an endless vacation.
This is I think behind much of what is in the Group - "Why do so many Wharrams rest in a graveyard ?" Or is that boatyard ? And Is there any difference ?
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