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23-07-2010, 17:07
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: between the devil and the deep blue sea
Boat: a sailing boat
Posts: 21,178
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Las Palmas, Capetown, Perth, Auckland, Papeete, Panama or Buenos Aires, Rio, San Miguel
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Las Palmas, Panama, Papeete, Brisbane, Darwin, Capetown, Rio, San Miguel
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23-07-2010, 17:12
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#32
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Moderator

Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Denmark (Winter), Cruising North Sea and Baltic (Summer)
Boat: Cutter-Rigged Moody 54
Posts: 35,248
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SaltyMonkey
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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World citizen like my ancestors. Resident three time zones east of the Solent, actually.
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23-07-2010, 17:53
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#33
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Australia
Boat: CT 54... for our sins!
Posts: 2,083
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SaltyMonkey
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?
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Well, if we're going to start delving into romance and great literature...
"Why don't we get drunk, and screw..." Jimmy Buffett
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23-07-2010, 20:58
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2008
Location: cruising SW Pacific
Boat: Jon Sayer 1-off 46 ft fract rig sloop strip plank in W Red Cedar
Posts: 21,561
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Quote:
Originally Posted by daddle
Rule #1 on this boat: No plan is the best plan.
Truly amazing results.
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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?
Cheers,
Jim and Ann s/v Insatiable II lying Manly, Qld, Oz
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Jim and Ann s/v Insatiable II, lying Port Cygnet Tasmania once again.
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23-07-2010, 21:37
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#35
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cruiser
Join Date: May 2010
Location: SF Bay Area; Former Annapolis and MA Liveaboard.
Boat: Looking and saving for my next...mid-atlantic coast
Posts: 6,197
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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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23-07-2010, 22:21
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#36
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Port Ludlow Wa
Boat: Makela,Ingrid38,Idora
Posts: 2,049
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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.
Todd
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19-03-2013, 17:53
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#37
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Senior Cruiser

Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: PORTUGAL
Posts: 31,281
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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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You can't oppress a people for so many decades and have them say.. "I Love You.. ".
"It is better to die standing proud, than to live a lifetime on ones knees.."
Self Defence is no excuse for Genocide...
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19-03-2013, 18:32
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#38
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Armchair Bucketeer
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 10,012
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Re: Challenge: RTW, Shorthanded, with Minimal Stops and Fairly 'Quicklyish'
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Originally Posted by boatman61
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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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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