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20-11-2011, 10:00
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#31
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Skagit City, WA
Posts: 25,769
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Re: Is 'this' Possible, or Is it Suicide ?
Not a good idea. It's like deciding to start jogging and doing a marathon your first time you step out the door. Actually.... it's worse than that. Trailer it up!
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20-11-2011, 10:10
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#32
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Cormorant Island, BC, Canada
Boat: Lancer 44 Motorsailer
Posts: 1,878
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Re: Is 'this' Possible, or Is it Suicide ?
Actually anything is possible. However other things come to mind. Well thought out....no, chance of success.......30% to 70% against, Entertaining..... definately for some. If you go ahead with this give us the details as I am sure it will make a good sporting event to do some betting on. Odds anyone. Have you ever seen a 30 foot wave off the Oregon coast from a 27 ft. boat? It is scary as hell in a boat twice that size with a lot of power.
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20-11-2011, 10:34
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#33
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Mexico (currently)
Boat: Panda 40 - S/V Cambria
Posts: 573
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Re: Is 'this' Possible, or Is it Suicide ?
From the recent past:
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Originally Posted by GeoPowers
Another horse beaten into submission waiting to ascend to the top ten list:
"Hi! I'm new to sailing, boats, and water in general. In fact, I've never even seen a boat. BUT, I have a dream to (fill in): [circumnavigate in a year/liveaboard/sail solo nonstop around the world]. I've had this dream since before birth. Can anyone tell me briefly what I need to leave? Like what boat should I get, how to make money, and how sails work, and what laws and rules there are and stuff? I plan on leaving in 2 weeks. Oh, by the way I'm a fill in: [middle-aged divorced man/soldier in a war zone/23-year old single girl/as cluseless as they come]."
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Could this possibly be a troll? Anyone heard from the original poster lately?
Michael
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23-11-2011, 08:44
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#34
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: DFW Metroplex
Boat: 1982 Catalina 25 Yacht
Posts: 164
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Re: Is 'this' Possible, or Is it Suicide ?
Probably a troll, there have been a few of these threads here and on other boards the last week or so.
But if not...OP...buy the boat and go for it. Just prepare properly, plan adequately, and head out on an adventure! Post up your progress and take pictures too.
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1982 Catalina 25, #2897; SR/FK/Traditional; Eagle Mountain Lake, Texas.
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23-11-2011, 10:01
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#35
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Olympia, WA
Boat: San Juan 28
Posts: 214
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Re: Is 'this' Possible, or Is it Suicide ?
This is possible, you just need to tweak your plan a little. If your mindset is that you need to just GO, and you HAVE to get to Vancouver Island, then skip the coastal leg and buy a boat in the south Puget Sound, where there's ample protection, lots of state parks with good moorings, lots of good anchorages, lots of facilities and stops along the way, and lots of easy short legs you can sail.
You can take baby steps all the way to Nanaimo BC without a significant crossing. Just from Olympia (the southern tip of the Puget Sound) to Nanaimo, there is easily a full season of exploring to be done. The Puget Sound and San Juan Islands and Gulf Islands are beautiful, great cruising ground and all quite accessible.
If you're feeling confident at that point and your boat is holding up, you can then tackle Johnstone Strait, and squeeze through to the Broughtons and beyond.
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23-11-2011, 10:37
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#36
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Boston, MA
Boat: Beneteau Oceanis 43 & S2 6.9
Posts: 969
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Re: Is 'this' Possible, or Is it Suicide ?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheechako
Not a good idea. It's like deciding to start jogging and doing a marathon your first time you step out the door. Actually.... it's worse than that. Trailer it up!
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I agree.
I'd actually liken it to him going to a mountain climbing forum and posting "I've never been mountain climbing before and neither has my buddy, but we're both going to buy the gear we need, do some local climbing and then after a week or two go climb Mt. Everest. Is this a good idea or suicide?"
I'm sure it can be done. The real question is whether or not it is wise to do so. And I think nearly everyone here can agree that its not.
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23-11-2011, 10:57
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#37
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cat herder, extreme blacksheep
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: furycame alley , tropics, mexico for now
Boat: 1976 FORMOSA yankee clipper 41
Posts: 18,967
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Re: Is 'this' Possible, or Is it Suicide ?
PIX OR IT DIDNT HAPPEN.
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23-11-2011, 19:34
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#38
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cruiser
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 13
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Re: Is 'this' Possible, or Is it Suicide ?
Seems the OP has got a few pages and some concerned. As if any newbies will continue north into that pacific mess. Sure it is possible. As for suicide just jump off the san francisco bridge as the people who migrate there do. You will survive the sail.And if worse comes to worse you can call the coast guard and abandon your investment{boat} and call it a day. cheers
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23-11-2011, 21:59
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#39
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Coos Bay, Oregon
Boat: Haida 26
Posts: 501
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Re: Is 'this' Possible, or Is it Suicide ?
If you make it around Point Conception & Point Aquello I'll send you a hundred Bucks...Michael..
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23-11-2011, 23:23
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#40
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Valencia, Spain
Boat: SAGA 27 AK
Posts: 509
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Re: Is 'this' Possible, or Is it Suicide ?
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Sweet are the uses of adversity.
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24-11-2011, 04:22
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#41
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Armchair Bucketeer
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 10,012
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Re: Is 'this' Possible, or Is it Suicide ?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Arch Stanton
This is possible, you just need to tweak your plan a little.
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Drive?
Is this possible? - Yes!
Is it suicide? - for OP, probably Yes!
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24-11-2011, 06:05
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#42
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Valencia, Spain
Boat: SAGA 27 AK
Posts: 509
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Re: Is 'this' Possible, or Is it Suicide ?
One OP, 40 responses, no reply from OP. Classic troll. Wake up CF...
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Sweet are the uses of adversity.
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24-11-2011, 09:15
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#43
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: La Ciudad de la Misión Didacus de Alcalá en Alta California, Virreinato de Nueva España
Boat: Cal 20
Posts: 21,632
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Re: Is 'this' Possible, or Is it Suicide ?
Quote:
Originally Posted by pillum
One OP, 40 responses, no reply from OP. Classic troll. Wake up CF...
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Well, 41 with yours, and 42 with this one.
On the other hand, the vehemence of many responses and the vitriol of some may have scared him away.
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For all of your celestial navigation questions: https://navlist.net/
A house is but a boat so poorly built and so firmly run aground no one would think to try and refloat it.
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24-11-2011, 09:18
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#44
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Philippines in the winters
Boat: It’s in French Polynesia now
Posts: 11,372
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Re: Is 'this' Possible, or Is it Suicide ?
Quote:
Originally Posted by pillum
One OP, 40 responses, no reply from OP. Classic troll. Wake up CF...
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Too embarrassed to reply, maybe????
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The measure of a man is how he navigates to a proper shore in the midst of a storm!
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24-11-2011, 09:33
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#45
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Moderator Emeritus

Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Key West & Sarasota
Boat: Cal 28 "Happy Days"
Posts: 4,210
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Re: Is this possible or is it suicide?
Quote:
Originally Posted by zeehag
many 25 footers harbor hop northward nicely. some do not. most ar wet rides. you want to pick out places that are about 40-60 miles apart for your duck-in places for day's work resting. go from sd bay to oceanside. then go to dana point. then go to newort beach. keep going like that all the way and you wont die too dead.
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CLASSIC!
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