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Forum: General Sailing Forum 08-11-2018, 12:03
Replies: 356
Views: 37,907
Posted By Jim Cate
Re: Cruising Sailboats: a Dying Breed?

I'm curious, Polux: do you think these boats now littering your anchorages are privately owned or charter boats? Here in Oz, the only crowded anchorages that are not near big population centers are...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 05-11-2018, 22:55
Replies: 356
Views: 37,907
Posted By Jim Cate
Re: Cruising Sailboats: a Dying Breed?

Geeze, mate, it wasn't me that made that statement... I was just commenting upon it. And since I joined the full time cruising community in '86, I guess I coulda been part of the frenzy... I...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 05-11-2018, 15:31
Replies: 356
Views: 37,907
Posted By Jim Cate
Re: Cruising Sailboats: a Dying Breed?

But that was the point of my post... it may push some out, but there are plenty of folks cruising in smaller boats. The bottom line is that if you have the desire, the means can be found, and it...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 05-11-2018, 14:30
Replies: 356
Views: 37,907
Posted By Jim Cate
Re: Cruising Sailboats: a Dying Breed?

Seems like some posters are projecting their own unwillingness to go cruising in anything but a large and home-like yacht onto the world's population.

We've been full time cruising for 32 years...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 03-11-2018, 12:32
Replies: 356
Views: 37,907
Posted By Jim Cate
Re: Cruising Sailboats: a Dying Breed?

Actually, I dunno! We don't seem to meet as many lifers as we used to... new ones, that is, for we do encounter a few old friends as we meander around. But, we are mostly sailing in a more restricted...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 02-11-2018, 23:07
Replies: 356
Views: 37,907
Posted By Jim Cate
Re: Cruising Sailboats: a Dying Breed?

How could there have been a cruising frenzy in the 70s and 80s? Youtube hadn't been invented, and farcebook equally absent. Nope, no cruising back then!

Jim (who did his first month long cruise in...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 30-10-2018, 16:22
Replies: 356
Views: 37,907
Posted By Jim Cate
Re: Cruising Sailboats: a Dying Breed?

General question: Why should I care if the production of new cruising boats has declined, or if the number of new cruising sailors is smaller?

I don't understand the apparent interest in "growing"...
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