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From: Mike Batchelor (no email)
Date: Sat Sep 11 2004 - 17:44:15 EDT
On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 11:10:11 -0700, John Bickford <> wrote:
> Speaking of good advice from this group, the best so far is to start out
> cruising locally and work your way up to longer trips as your experience and
> comfort levels grow.
>
> Good luck!
> John & Lela Bickford
> S/V Yachtman's Dream
That's good to know, since that is my plan. :) I'm buying the yacht
real soon now (have to sell the condo first) and then the over the
next 3-4 years I will gain experience and confidence day-sailing and
weekending in So. California's Channel Islands, then the summer of
2007 or 2008, depending on when I am ready mentally and financially,
I'll quit my job and sail the islands full-time for the summer. Then
that October I will leave with the Baja Ha-Ha regatta for Cabo San
Lucas, and spend a season cruising the Sea of Cortez and Mexico.
After that, I'll have three choices: quit because it wasn't what I
thought it would be (unlikely I hope!), or head south to the canal and
enter the western Carribean, or head west and cross the Pacific.
Thailand and East Asia beckons me, so I imagine I will take the 3rd
choice and head west. I've also learned to SCUBA and got my open
water cert this year, so I am partial to cruising grounds where there
is great diving to be done.
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