Ross, CalebD, and Nice N Easy
Ross, You said, “Could you sail for 24 hours if you had someone to help you stand watch? Yes ? good! then you can sail for one day at a time until you have crossed an ocean.” What about using a boat that can sail herself or a boat with a windvane system. I have sailed trans ocean each way and either way works if you want to sail solo. Also if you want to learn how to do a trans ocean sail do longer and longer hops along the coast going farther offshore each time. I think you will learn a lot more that way because of the navigation, provisioning and route planning required. Just my opinion of course. CalebD, Visit anytime but call first. I can be in the boatyard, shop, or one of several other locations. And by the way I built a Bluejay, the baby sister to a 19 foot Lightning as my second boat and cruised on her before getting my first SeaSprite. Talk about the surprised look on someone’s face when I sailed into some places as a kid traveling on a 13 foot open boat. Just going from East Greenwich RI to Block Island RI was a trip. Nice N Easy, Beam is not all it’s cracked up to be. On smaller boats less beam is safer and on most modern boats the beam is too far aft which causes steering problems and it’s also too large which is unsafe in very bad weather. I lived on my 22 foot SeaSprite and also traveled quite a bit on her and found I had enough space for 80 days of supplies without any problems at all. In that boat England was only 40 to 60 days away depending on the weather. All the best, Robert Gainer
Ross, You said, “Could you sail for 24 hours if you had someone to help you stand watch? Yes ? good! then you can sail for one day at a time until you have crossed an ocean.” What about using a boat that can sail herself or a boat with a windvane system. I have sailed trans ocean each way and either way works if you want to sail solo. Also if you want to learn how to do a trans ocean sail do longer and longer hops along the coast going farther offshore each time. I think you will learn a lot more that way because of the navigation, provisioning and route planning required. Just my opinion of course. CalebD, Visit anytime but call first. I can be in the boatyard, shop, or one of several other locations. And by the way I built a Bluejay, the baby sister to a 19 foot Lightning as my second boat and cruised on her before getting my first SeaSprite. Talk about the surprised look on someone’s face when I sailed into some places as a kid traveling on a 13 foot open boat. Just going from East Greenwich RI to Block Island RI was a trip. Nice N Easy, Beam is not all it’s cracked up to be. On smaller boats less beam is safer and on most modern boats the beam is too far aft which causes steering problems and it’s also too large which is unsafe in very bad weather. I lived on my 22 foot SeaSprite and also traveled quite a bit on her and found I had enough space for 80 days of supplies without any problems at all. In that boat England was only 40 to 60 days away depending on the weather. All the best, Robert Gainer
