300 days at sea
Not really RV related but could you live in your RV for 300 days without touching land? http://www.sailor.life He's leaving today from my home town. He is totaly wired and hooked up with the lat...
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Veebyes,
Yes and there's a huge difference between crossing the oceans in a 23' sloop with tiller steering vs having wheel steering and with having very minimal navigation equipment that was available in 1965 and being able to have just enough room for stowing enough food etc to barely make it across an ocean. Then there's not enough room onboard/the deck to keep from meeting yourself going from bow to stern plus not having enough vertical height in the tiny cabin below to even stand up at all the whole crossing.
VS
Having a huge 60' long wide boat with it's luxury and safety it offers and having the modern state of the art of today's electronics VS the 1965 simple basic navigational electronics equipped vessel and not even having engine propulsion capabilities nor the ability to carry fuel enough even if you did had a little 2hp etc fuel sipping kicker outboard engine. The 60 footer gives gobs of storage space below and far less violent wave action on the boat for being tossed about.
FAR from apples to apples and vastly more challenging on a 23' sailboat than in a big 60 footer. We are no strangers to boats as we live on Lake Michigan and we've had 9 sailboats alone so far and all but 2 were a whole lot bigger and much wider than his 23'. The smaller ones were a 14' Capri open day sail'er and a 21' Catalina which is close the Dove's size but our 21' Catalina had a pop top so we could actually stand up vertical below in the cabin. One of ours had 3 staterooms below and gobs of navigational equipment and 3 of them have an autopilot. Spent many years racing our larger sailboats in the sail club races and was an officer in the club having been in it from it's start back in the 1960's.
We are both rag hangers and stink potters and have been for over 55 years now. Best of both worlds!
Yes and there's a huge difference between crossing the oceans in a 23' sloop with tiller steering vs having wheel steering and with having very minimal navigation equipment that was available in 1965 and being able to have just enough room for stowing enough food etc to barely make it across an ocean. Then there's not enough room onboard/the deck to keep from meeting yourself going from bow to stern plus not having enough vertical height in the tiny cabin below to even stand up at all the whole crossing.
VS
Having a huge 60' long wide boat with it's luxury and safety it offers and having the modern state of the art of today's electronics VS the 1965 simple basic navigational electronics equipped vessel and not even having engine propulsion capabilities nor the ability to carry fuel enough even if you did had a little 2hp etc fuel sipping kicker outboard engine. The 60 footer gives gobs of storage space below and far less violent wave action on the boat for being tossed about.
FAR from apples to apples and vastly more challenging on a 23' sailboat than in a big 60 footer. We are no strangers to boats as we live on Lake Michigan and we've had 9 sailboats alone so far and all but 2 were a whole lot bigger and much wider than his 23'. The smaller ones were a 14' Capri open day sail'er and a 21' Catalina which is close the Dove's size but our 21' Catalina had a pop top so we could actually stand up vertical below in the cabin. One of ours had 3 staterooms below and gobs of navigational equipment and 3 of them have an autopilot. Spent many years racing our larger sailboats in the sail club races and was an officer in the club having been in it from it's start back in the 1960's.
We are both rag hangers and stink potters and have been for over 55 years now. Best of both worlds!
