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30-12-2013, 18:30
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#31
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2007
Location: On the hard due to wife's medical condition.
Boat: Sold, alas, because life happens.
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Re: Sailing on a Schedule
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Originally Posted by GeoPowers
Quite possibly most here are in vehement agreement, and it all boils down to semantics. I think most everyone here would plan for provisioning, weather windows, visa limitations, seasonal factors, etc, etc. And only the most free of free spirits would have no idea where they were headed when they get underway. Most have an idea of the next destination or two or three, usually with a backup plan or two thrown in.
When someone mentions sailing to a schedule I think of the scenario where it is blowing 35 day one, 40 day two, and 50 day three, then calm for the next several days.....but someone has to get back to a meeting for day three. In that case, sometimes its best to suck it up and find alternate transportation and leave the boat for a later return trip.
Frank
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31-12-2013, 06:55
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#32
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2011
Boat: Tayana 52
Posts: 282
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Re: Sailing on a Schedule
Contrary to what's written I think everyone is on a schedule - it's just the intervals between the elements that differ
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31-12-2013, 07:09
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#33
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Nearly an old salt
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Lefkas Marina ,Greece
Boat: Bavaria 36
Posts: 22,801
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Quote:
Originally Posted by boatman61
Funny enough this is why I never tell folk where I am going till I've arrived.. 
Many years back on my 1st boat I was sailing from Poole to Keyhaven.. normally I took the inner route under the castle but this time I thought I'd sail by the Needles (They were tall in those days)... anyway.. my planning for the tide had been for the inshore passage and I ended up getting caught just by the Needles... 
Sat there for 5hrs doing between 5-6kts and going nowhere... finally made the Keyhaven entrance around 2300... pub was shut so dropped the hook in the bend where it curved up to the village..
20 minutes later I was being bawled out by a Coastie for not reporting we'd arrived.. turns out the G/f's son had got worried as his Mom had told him she'd ring from the pub around 1900.. so at 1930hrs he alerted the Coastguard to a boat missing at sea..
So since then... folk know where I've been.. or am..
but next port and when I'm leaving... 
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I usually call in a TR on the VHF keeps the coasties happy
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31-12-2013, 07:09
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#34
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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: Sailing on a Schedule
only schedule i keep when sailing is that one wherein i find A WEATHER WINDOW FOR MY BOAT AND USE IT...i sailed to a schedule. it was not positive...florida we shipwrecked..into a spoils bank in 41 kts winds and destroyed the rudder and split the skin above the rudder....same day the bp well blew, april 21 2010......a day that will live in infamy..
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31-12-2013, 07:31
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#35
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Cambridge MD
Boat: Carter offshore 35
Posts: 393
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Re: Sailing on a Schedule
Heard it said the most dangerous thing on a boat is a schedule. Mother Nature doesn't operate on one.
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31-12-2013, 07:31
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#36
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Senior Cruiser

Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: PORTUGAL
Posts: 31,272
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Re: Sailing on a Schedule
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Originally Posted by zeehag
only schedule i keep when sailing is that one wherein i find A WEATHER WINDOW FOR MY BOAT AND USE IT...i sailed to a schedule. it was not positive...florida we shipwrecked..into a spoils bank in 41 kts winds and destroyed the rudder and split the skin above the rudder....same day the bp well blew, april 21 2010......a day that will live in infamy..
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31-12-2013, 08:39
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#37
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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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Re: Sailing on a Schedule
Well, I was trying to come up with the worst reason possible to keep to a schedule but Z truly beat me. Now I will avoid schedules lest I create an environmental disaster.
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31-12-2013, 09:58
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#38
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2009
Location: holland michigan
Boat: Gulfstar 50 ketch
Posts: 483
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Re: Sailing on a Schedule
I have/want to sail to a schedule. Got one of those job things and only a couple weeks vacation. Can only take a week plus a day of two at a time (small company). Wife has more weeks but same limited amount at a time. Now if storm warnings come up we will wait or leave early. But most of the time we go. Get our butts kicked most years coming home but rough sailing for a day or so isn't that bad. If we had unlimited time the schedule would definitely be more open.
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