Comment Re:Are we all really so pathetic? (Score 1) 199
Clearly none of you have ever been on an ocean passage with a small boat (under 500 ft is SMALL out on the ocean!).
Being able to yell for help is a matter of survival if something goes wrong. For 3 weeks or so YOU as Captain are the paramedics, fire dept, police dept. etc., etc. No matter how sick someone gets or how beligerant, or ... YOU get to handle the situation.
One of the nastiest pages in my notes from the courses I took preparing for our trip is two pages on burial at sea! Since I am alone out here with my wife, that is definitly NOT something I want to have to use.
Email (NOT full net access!) is one way to stay in touch with the outside world and to remind yourself that the world doesn't consist of a lumpy blue horizon! Likewise a regular schedule ensures that someone out there knows if you dissapear. There is no place in the world as bad being adrift in a lifraft at sea watching your supplies dwindle away.
Two cents worth from one who has been doing this for 6 years and sailed from Florida to Australia.
Mike
Yacht ICHI
See our website: www.xoom.xom/aa4mw/
Being able to yell for help is a matter of survival if something goes wrong. For 3 weeks or so YOU as Captain are the paramedics, fire dept, police dept. etc., etc. No matter how sick someone gets or how beligerant, or
One of the nastiest pages in my notes from the courses I took preparing for our trip is two pages on burial at sea! Since I am alone out here with my wife, that is definitly NOT something I want to have to use.
Email (NOT full net access!) is one way to stay in touch with the outside world and to remind yourself that the world doesn't consist of a lumpy blue horizon! Likewise a regular schedule ensures that someone out there knows if you dissapear. There is no place in the world as bad being adrift in a lifraft at sea watching your supplies dwindle away.
Two cents worth from one who has been doing this for 6 years and sailed from Florida to Australia.
Mike
Yacht ICHI
See our website: www.xoom.xom/aa4mw/
