Time to beat the big record.

[ozskipper]

Kid! Get your yachtmasters certificate.. then keep planning

[Pete7]

Chucklet at your age I think you should start by acquiring a dinghy and learn to sail on a lake. You may need your parents support but this is all very do-able at 13 years of age. The sailing skills you learn on a dinghy are all transferable to larger yachts indeed ex dinghy sailors are probably better at sailing larger yachts since they understand sail shape and setting so much better.

Peter

[Blue Crab]

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Thanks for the wannabe chuckles.

BC

[Celestialsailor]

Originally Posted by chucklet321

im not so sure they go that fast, awfull fast for a short ship with nothing special about it,double check that

Have you considered a trip to the North Pole taking an 8ft. Dinghy with you? You could find the actual pole (its the candy-striped one that says North pole) and push the dinghy around it twice or hey, even three times becoming the youngest to circle the earth 3 times!

[Blue Crab]

Yep. I think DOJ beat you to that suggestion. PLus, N-S and vice versa is shorter I think than round the equator. Pussified way to go. Chucklet wants the real deal. Only the gods know why.

[Lt.]

Originally Posted by Celestialsailor

Have you considered a trip to the North Pole taking an 8ft. Dinghy with you? You could find the actual pole (its the candy-striped one that says North pole) and push the dinghy around it twice or hey, even three times becoming the youngest to circle the earth 3 times!

I might just do that...

[Blue Crab]

Can you really see Russia from your window or even standing on top of your igloo or whatever?

[Auzzee]

Originally Posted by Lt.

I might just do that...

An Aussie bloke, Dick Smith, who was the first to fly a chopper to the North Pole already did it, six times, unassisted, without stopping.

[DeepFrz]

Ah, but the boating record has to put in a certain number of miles and has to cross certain latitudes in the Pacific and Atlantic.

[Celestialsailor]

Originally Posted by DeepFrz

Ah, but the boating record has to put in a certain number of miles and has to cross certain latitudes in the Pacific and Atlantic.

Go ahead...rain on my party!

[DeepFrz]

Although if he rowed that 8 foot dingy from, say, NY to the Candy Striped pole and back he would surely set some kind of record.

[carstenb]

'course he'd have to mount a helluva big flamethrower up from to melt the ice in front of the dinghy as he rowed along. Lots of gas bottles. No room for buckets

[Wotname]

Nah, the ice will have gone by the time he's ready. Will only work for north pole of course

[downunder]

Originally Posted by chucklet321

not sure yet, wont be doing much anchoring, i will need a few backup auto pilots though for such a long trip

A good seaman like attitude. Not

[David_Old_Jersey]

Originally Posted by Lt.

I might just do that...

have you given any thought to which type of boat would be best?

A ferro cement outrigger canoe with a junk rig perhaps? Maybe you could start a(nother) thread? .