Is the Blue water sailor extinct?

[Fr J Hackett]

It's a start....

You Falmouth is a starting place.

 

[25931]

Why bother to go back?

Why bother to go ?

 

[Kelpie]

Why bother to go ?

I'm not bored of jumping off the boat every morning for a swim.
Or snorkeling with turtles.
Or sailing in perfect beam reach conditions.
Or exploring beautiful islands.
Or meeting interesting fellow cruisers for sundowners
Etc.

 

[capnsensible]

Why bother to go ?

Why bother to criticise something that plenty of other people go and do?

 

[sanganishan]

I'm not bored of jumping off the boat every morning for a swim.
Or Swim with turtles.
Or sailing in perfect beam reach conditions.
Or exploring beautiful islands.
Or meeting interesting fellow cruisers for sundowners
Etc.

Second that, I have experienced this in oahu

 

[Dellquay13]

I did Chatham Queenborough Ramsgate and back last February, does that qualify me as a Brown Water sailor?

 

[Fr J Hackett]

I did Chatham Queenborough Ramsgate and back last February, does that qualify me as a Brown Water sailor?

Depending on the weather maybe a brown trousers sailor.

 

[Dellquay13]

Depending on the weather maybe a brown trousers sailor.

2 night passages in February on a sailing school boat with broken heating made me a blue extremities sailor

 

[Gsailor]

We were pleased that a surveyor was very complimentary about our 1998 44' lifting keel aluminium yacht and valued her at 290,000€. She is set up to cross the pond and we therefore advised him that our sales pitch was going to be to the 'go anywhere' blue water sailor. He said that such persons were extinct. Is this true? We are putting our boat up for sale (probably on Boats.com) in the Adriatic and were somewhat concerned by this statement.

No it is not true - a look at YouTube will show a lot.

Good luck

 

[Stemar]

Talking of YouTube, does the OP have a way to make a good video about the boat? That plus a bit of marketing in suitable areas could get potential buyers interested

 

[dunedin]

Talking of YouTube, does the OP have a way to make a good video about the boat? That plus a bit of marketing in suitable areas could get potential buyers interested

This is another old thread. Think boat in post #1 has been sold a while ago

 

[Dellquay13]

This is another old thread. Think boat in post #1 has been sold a while ago

Yes the boat may be sold, but is the question about blue water sailors in the title still valid and worth discussing?

Edit, just reread the posts previous to yours, good point about shutting stable doors after the horse has bolted

 

[boomerangben]

A Quick Look at the Marine traffic plot for the Atlantic between Spain and the Caribbean, there are no shortage of yachts crossing blue water. Whether that makes them blue water sailors is another thing

 

[Wansworth]

It was steel blue in the rías the other day……

 

[RupertW]

A Quick Look at the Marine traffic plot for the Atlantic between Spain and the Caribbean, there are no shortage of yachts crossing blue water. Whether that makes them blue water sailors is another thing

Most of us are not blue water sailors - we cross oceans in utterly unsafe and unsuitable boats made for comfort and living well and just happen to be able to cross oceans a fraction faster than proper boats.

Thanks to the kind of advice of people in proper blue water boats I assume that most of us AWB owners perish on the way across and I’ve just been lucky.

 

[geem]

Most of us are not blue water sailors - we cross oceans in utterly unsafe and unsuitable boats made for comfort and living well and just happen to be able to cross oceans a fraction faster than proper boats.

Thanks to the kind of advice of people in proper blue water boats I assume that most of us AWB owners perish on the way across and I’ve just been lucky.

Let's hope you have nice weather for the West to East crossing. I am sure you know its isn't the same reliable weather as the Trade wind route out to the Caribbean

 

[RupertW]

Let's hope you have nice weather for the West to East crossing. I am sure you know its isn't the same reliable weather as the Trade wind route out to the Caribbean

I’m sure only long keel boats can do that crossing. Sounds impossible otherwise.

 

[geem]

I’m sure only long keel boats can do that crossing. Sounds impossible otherwise.

I don't think so. Done it a fin keel mono and a catamaran

 

[Tomaret]

I did Chatham Queenborough Ramsgate and back last February, does that qualify me as a Brown Water sailor?

It may not qualify you for anything, but it might get you certified. (Truth to tell, I’m slightly envious that you have the determination to did it.)

 

[Wansworth]

Used to ship china clay into Queenbough,awful smell of old bones and a sort of windswept dowdyness