Hello Ron and welcome,
Have a number of friends that are pilots that have taken up sailing. Seems like the transition is pretty easy for most. Guess if you can fly a plane then sailing a
boat is pretty simple.
Navigation is about the same but you have a lot more time to figure it out. Get
lost in a plane you have as long as your
fuel lasts to get found. Get
lost in a
boat you can take as long as you like.
Don't want to discourage you but there have been a couple of times when I was out on a long
passage in nasty
weather; wet, tired and beat up when I looked up to see a contrail and envied the people on the plane in air conditioned comfort. Then the next day when the sun came out, the winds calmed to a nice sailing breeze and I had a good night's rest I wouldn't have traded places for a thousand dollars.
Stay active on this forum and others, look around and I'll bet you find someone looking for crew to help move their boat around. I may be in the market myself next year.
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