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Old 23-07-2010, 17:07   #31
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Old 23-07-2010, 17:12   #32
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Well...thats a baffling situation. Why are you in Solent on a Moody - just picking up a few stray cousins that were left behind? Fascinating.
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Old 23-07-2010, 17:53   #33
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Ok Dockhead, first you quote Sterling, now you quote Keats? I think man, you need some Russian literature or something really balsy to wake us up. Dostoyevsky?
Well, if we're going to start delving into romance and great literature...

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Old 23-07-2010, 20:58   #34
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Rule #1 on this boat: No plan is the best plan.

Truly amazing results.
Why Daddle, planning is part of the fun of it all! Ann and I plan things out in awesome detail, then write out the details in the sand at low tide. In the morning we go for a look (in order to refresh our memory of the details). Bugger! They're GONE... So we see which way the wind is blowing and head off on some favorable point of sail, wondering where we will end up!

Seriously, the longer we've been out, the less we plan in advance. Seem to have more fun that way.

So, the idea of corcumnavigating with only a few stops to repair/provision has no appeal to us at all. When we left SF in 1986 we thought we might circumnavigate. We've been circulating around the SW Pacific since 1990... who knows where the next 24 years will find us? Who cares?

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Old 23-07-2010, 21:37   #35
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We just want to get a lay of the land first...you know, piss on a few trees to layout the property then go looking for bones and forget the time
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Old 23-07-2010, 22:21   #36
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How about this? Finish the boat and head out to Spain and down into the Med. If you like it keep on going. Atleast from there you could have fun and get a huge amount of sailing. Hmmm -- But no classic literature you'll get a headache.

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pirate Re: Challenge: RTW, Shorthanded, with Minimal Stops and Fairly 'Quicklyish'

Jersey - Cascais - Madiera - Cape Verde - Brazil - S.Africa - Perth - Tasmania - NZ - then disappear into French Polynesia for a while.. you'll need the break by then...
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Jersey - Cascais - Madiera - Cape Verde - Brazil - S.Africa - Perth - Tasmania - NZ - then disappear into French Polynesia for a while.. you'll need the break by then...
I see I started this thread nearly 3 years ago - 3 guesses how the idea (daydream ) worked out (as a clue - I probably only had 4,000 posts on CF back then ).
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