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Originally Posted by tanya2015
She travels everywhere on a boat..I know..it's strange!
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everywhere on a boat??? you're asking a bunch of sailboat owners if they might take you and your friends along on a trip from the states to belize. does, "she travels everywhere on a boat" include late nights on watch battling rough seas and howling
wind? and then something breaks?
i recently relocated my
lancer 36 from
san diego to oxnard, less than two hundred miles, and a friend who had been
day sailing and
racing with me for a couple years asked if he could go along. he had become a capable
deck hand so i said, sure, knowing such an uphill climb would be a lot of work even for a competent
single hander like me. long story short, he completely
lost it after dark as the
wind and seas continued to increase as was
forecast. he literally went below and curled up in a fetal position. i decided for his
safety AND MINE to sail into long beach and get him off my boat. came to find out that he too had a fear of flying.
so now i've added yet another
rule to follow during my sailing adventures. anybody who can't figure out that the most dangerous segment of a trip in an airplane is the drive to the
airport is not welcome on my boat for even moderately long passages.