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Subject: Re: TWL: Cruising range of passagemakers
From: Georgs Kolesnikovs (georgs@XXX.XXX)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 07:31:28 EST
<<Despite some suggestion that those who may have made passages in sailboats
should not post on this list>>
All hands--
There no prohibition, in policy or in spirit, against anyone who has messed
about in sailboats from posting to Trawler World List. The majority of
Listees do, in fact, have sailing in their backgrounds.
What I'm interested in fostering is an ongoing discussion--and, sometimes,
debate--on how we in the motorboat world can undertake voyages offshore in
safety, comfort and with dispatch, how we can push the envelope, uncover
new techniques, survive storms, and cross oceans with relative ease.
Voyaging, cruising and living aboard _under power_ is what that this forum
is all about.
There are plenty of forums elsewhere for extolling the virtues of sailboats
and their almost unlimited range. The limitations of range are very much a
fact of life in voyaging under power, a challenging and fascinating aspect
of ocean-crossing in motorboats.
Let's not waste bandwith on how sailboats can make passages of 4,000 miles
or more across the Pacific. That's yesterday's news.
Let's focus instead on what is possible in motorboats, on what is being
accomplished by ordinary trawler crawlers such as Fred and Chris Caron who
are having a grand time making their way across the Pacific--without a
stitch of sail.
--Listmeister Georgs
PS Trawlerworld.com has recently started a series of reports on the Carons
and their voyage around the world. Follow the links from
<http://www.trawlerworld.com>.
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