Twister_Ken
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How many other sailing freaks have absolutely no desire to go "blue water sailing"? (above and beyond a crossong of Biscay, maybe, coz ther's no other sensible way to get to Spanish restaurants?)
Am I alone?
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snowleopard
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You're quite alone. All the rest of us are doing it, planning it or remembering it.
Sorry.
Sorry.
aitchw
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Quite a few, I would guess, me being one of them. Just to be out in my boat in a wonderful place with the possibility of a few nights aboard is enough for me.
stephenh
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I'm with you..
Brest - Arctic Circle and beyond is the best sailing in the world.
Unfortunately SWMBO is a bluey and I am forced to go south to the Med for 3 weeks every year.
Hot, crowded, expensive.......
Rather be in Iceland.............
Brest - Arctic Circle and beyond is the best sailing in the world.
Unfortunately SWMBO is a bluey and I am forced to go south to the Med for 3 weeks every year.
Hot, crowded, expensive.......
Rather be in Iceland.............
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It's unlike you to ask a Powerstripper type of question. Is this possibly the first sign that your sunset-years have arrived?
Sans Bateau
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If I had my way, I would like to sail all the way around the UK, Ireland and Scotland, stopping almost every where. Staying long enough to just say I've been there or spending a week or so to explore.
When that was done, start in Holland and work all the way down to Spain.
I would sail during the season, laying up the boat wherever we were at the end of the summer.
Just got to sell it to SWMBO!
When that was done, start in Holland and work all the way down to Spain.
I would sail during the season, laying up the boat wherever we were at the end of the summer.
Just got to sell it to SWMBO!
Twister_Ken
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We see eye-to-eye. A different pub/bistro/cantina/taverna every night.
The question then becomes, how long to 'do' Europe, say Norway to Turkey.
The question then becomes, how long to 'do' Europe, say Norway to Turkey.
FullCircle
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Well, we intend to go through to Black Sea from Le Havre, then bump along any/all coasts at snalis pace. Then we might go across to Carib. We shall see.
In the meanwhile, we are blissfully happy trotting round our cruising ground and meeting loads of people, and noting the differences in places to last year!
In the meanwhile, we are blissfully happy trotting round our cruising ground and meeting loads of people, and noting the differences in places to last year!
FWB
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I could go off right now, boats always in commission, I'm retired but no desire to do so. Spent my working life flying people around the World.
Britain is my favourite place.
I would just like Blighty to have better weather.
Britain is my favourite place.
I would just like Blighty to have better weather.
claymore
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Whits wrang wi Argyll - ra watters blue all the day there
Blueboatman
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Yes and No.
I really loved my one blue water cruise because the boat drew less than 2 feet and would sit upright...As a consequence there are so many places I would never have ventured to..remote and hidden places throughout Europe,the Bahamas,North America and ,well,thats as far as I got. For example you can go 'inland along part of the Algarve.Mount Desert Island in Maine is circumnavigable with shallow draft and low mast height.The backside of the Exuma islands is quite simply unspoilt.Period. Technically I am (we are)still on a round the world plan but absolutely no rush.(And swimbo agrees).The main point is to enjoy the day sailing and places when you arrive.
But you have to do the blue bits to get to the nice bits and away from the moneygrasping WE CON U uk marine attitude.
I really loved my one blue water cruise because the boat drew less than 2 feet and would sit upright...As a consequence there are so many places I would never have ventured to..remote and hidden places throughout Europe,the Bahamas,North America and ,well,thats as far as I got. For example you can go 'inland along part of the Algarve.Mount Desert Island in Maine is circumnavigable with shallow draft and low mast height.The backside of the Exuma islands is quite simply unspoilt.Period. Technically I am (we are)still on a round the world plan but absolutely no rush.(And swimbo agrees).The main point is to enjoy the day sailing and places when you arrive.
But you have to do the blue bits to get to the nice bits and away from the moneygrasping WE CON U uk marine attitude.
Sailfree
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We took 3 months off to see if we would like it in 2004.
Found the days of a "good" sail limited and that waqking up to an empty horizon not for us.
Overall I loved the sailing but it was the getting there and viewing a new port/area that was fun not being on a boats in the middle of nowhere - if that makes sense!
I would love to take more time off to sail to various ports etc but not to cross the Atantic/Pacific but different folk different strokes!!
Found the days of a "good" sail limited and that waqking up to an empty horizon not for us.
Overall I loved the sailing but it was the getting there and viewing a new port/area that was fun not being on a boats in the middle of nowhere - if that makes sense!
I would love to take more time off to sail to various ports etc but not to cross the Atantic/Pacific but different folk different strokes!!
bedouin
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Totally agree - I love the idea of sailing to foreign places but I'm not so keen on the idea of crossing oceans. I'll do it once just to see but that will probably be it
Brierley
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Don't really want to do the 'blue water' bit - I'm uneasy being out of sight of land for 6 hours crossing the Channel! - but do want to retire early and see lots of far-flung places. After considering many options, blue-water cruising seems to offer the best set of compromises for achieving that. If finances allowed, I would be perfectly happy to retire in UK and 'potter' in boats, chartering in more exotic locations, but I'm not prepared to wait 30+ years to retire (Mr Brown's current estimate for my pensionable retirement age!!).
jonic
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Ken, what a weirdo.
Where's the salt in yer veins? Go and dunk yer head in the sea a 100 times to sort yourself out you nutter. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Where's the salt in yer veins? Go and dunk yer head in the sea a 100 times to sort yourself out you nutter. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
MoodySabre
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Having done Plymouth to Bradwell last year I found the moving on quite entrancing and getting home was a triumph and anticlimax. I wanted to keep going. Reading the article in April PBO about a season in Scotland and the East and West Coast routes has made me really keen to do the round trip in a year or two.
This year's target is France and Holland would be good one year. But the travelling is the key thing.
This year's target is France and Holland would be good one year. But the travelling is the key thing.
suse
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... found the moving on quite entrancing and getting home was a triumph and anticlimax. I wanted to keep going. ... But the travelling is the key thing.
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Sorry about the extract MS - but this sums up my long long trip last summer. Five months after getting back, and I'm still brainfogged and unsettled. 'Entrancing' is just the word for it - new places, people, walks, mad showers, washing clothes in a bucket (providing Sunday entertainment), smelly wharves, rocks, whales, new harbours - and so much much more... I would do it again - and the blue bits? I now know I prefer the novelty of new - but do the ocean bits to get there.
S x
... found the moving on quite entrancing and getting home was a triumph and anticlimax. I wanted to keep going. ... But the travelling is the key thing.
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Sorry about the extract MS - but this sums up my long long trip last summer. Five months after getting back, and I'm still brainfogged and unsettled. 'Entrancing' is just the word for it - new places, people, walks, mad showers, washing clothes in a bucket (providing Sunday entertainment), smelly wharves, rocks, whales, new harbours - and so much much more... I would do it again - and the blue bits? I now know I prefer the novelty of new - but do the ocean bits to get there.
S x
Lakesailor
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I have no desire at all to sail places. I am perfectly happy going round in circles. I noticed someone on another thread about cruising chutes explaining how much time it saves on a 90 mile leg!
Bloody hell! I can take a tack about 20 or 30 times in a mile sailing up narrow channels. A straightforward 3 or 4 hours out on the lake can involve more course-changing and sail-trimming than most people do in a weeks's sailing.
I just like being there. The beauty, the serenity and the challenge of making some kind of progress with the wind playing silly buggers all the while.
But just the chuckling of the water on the hull of my wooden dinghy (now sold) was a delight in itself.
Bloody hell! I can take a tack about 20 or 30 times in a mile sailing up narrow channels. A straightforward 3 or 4 hours out on the lake can involve more course-changing and sail-trimming than most people do in a weeks's sailing.
I just like being there. The beauty, the serenity and the challenge of making some kind of progress with the wind playing silly buggers all the while.
But just the chuckling of the water on the hull of my wooden dinghy (now sold) was a delight in itself.
Krusty
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If I had my way, I would like to sail all the way around the UK, Ireland and Scotland, stopping almost every where. Staying long enough to just say I've been there or spending a week or so to explore.
When that was done, start in Holland and work all the way down to Spain.
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Your first part is spot-on: Been there, done that, and discovered so much that's good about my own country that I never knew.
However, I think your next line is way off!
Go for the Skagerrak and the Sweden/Norway border, then explore the whole coast of Norway from Oslo to at least 70 North! Been there, done that too; quite incredibly eye-opening and mind-blowing; and not just visually!!
If I had my way, I would like to sail all the way around the UK, Ireland and Scotland, stopping almost every where. Staying long enough to just say I've been there or spending a week or so to explore.
When that was done, start in Holland and work all the way down to Spain.
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Your first part is spot-on: Been there, done that, and discovered so much that's good about my own country that I never knew.
However, I think your next line is way off!
Go for the Skagerrak and the Sweden/Norway border, then explore the whole coast of Norway from Oslo to at least 70 North! Been there, done that too; quite incredibly eye-opening and mind-blowing; and not just visually!!
Goldie
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As are the sailors most of the time..... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
