What We Wished We Had Known Before We Started
"Boy, if I 'd only known then what I know hour," is the desire of all adults who think their youth and most of the cruisers more than a month into their journey, thinking at first that have gone. After six and a half years of sailing around the world in the spirit of dolphin in the top twenty years of sailing, five years of planning, for a year of research, the right boat and three years of preparation real, we think that now we know what we should know before running off. Actually, we thought we were most areas of good cover. I was a sailor with coastal experience, we've subscribed to me all the magazines of surfing and impellers, I read all the books from Slocum, from Roth, from Pardy, from Hinz, from Dashew and others too numerous to mention, I bought every impeller guide published, we obtained the permission of ham, medicine assisted in the sea, weather, engine maintenance and refrigeration courses, taught celestial navigation, I went to every workshop impeller and the conditions were named by any of Jack marina, boat, motor and sail the shop and the technician on within 50 miles of the harbor. Towards the end of our Circumnavigation in Mexico, we've been asked that what we wished we had known the most. Carole and I immediately said, in chorus, the "Che survive." Wonderful time that we would have been even better had he known that. The statistics show that it is safer to run on motorways dell'guidando freeway in Los Angeles (which isn 't?), But that is cold comfort since run out of the dock-lines and tackled a passage from twenty days through Pacific to the Marquesas, or set out on the red Sea.We passed with the provision of hell in recent weeks before we were. The canned meat, soup, fruit and vegetables, pasta, dried fruit, beans, peas, flour, rice, the toothbrushes, toothpaste, bath soap, laundry detergent, shampoo the and the list have switched. We have enough? We had thought of everything? Where are we going to put them? How are we going to find them again? We still haven 't found that Poupon jar of gray, but still survived. We ate the last of the spaghetti Costco bought in Italy, nearly four years later. All our reading indicated that the United States was the last place where we could find all sorts of foods and staples. In fact, each place we visited, there were at least a warehouse where we could buy canned goods, flour, rice, meat, vegetables and fruit. Prices may be higher for the various items that the United States, but when the costs of warehousing, and the deterioration of the waste are broken inside, the real price difference is negligible. We wished we had known that the locals at each place we visited them were treated so well. During the call the U.S. embassy in Singapore that we noticed was a travel advisory warning not to visit every place we go last year and in every place we were about to spend the next visit. We have not had problems other than being arrested by secret police in Sudan.We think that all cruisers were good guys, ecological, party happy and ready to help one and all in times of difficulty. That the impression created by inhalation of SSCA bulletins, books and magazines impellers, the only lasted 19 days, our arrival in the Bay of Taiohae. The yacht anchored already have them ignored, except to ensure that we didn 't anchor too close. To be fair, we arrived just after one of those "Around the world in eighteen Months" had gone. This group had completely alienated the locals and other cruisers. The formation of friendships impellers didn 't really starts to Tahiti, when the "Class of 96" had begun to select and stratify. The boats with the same rhythm impeller have tended to be in the same places at the same time. The flow to the west of the boats became gritty, while the groups were formed and started to approach. After the FPO, separation has become even more pronounced, a lot that goes into Samoa, another with pliers, another Hawaii.CrewBelieve all the horror stories you've read. No matter how good a team is like him or out of the boat in three weeks. The only exception we found was an Australian boat captain with a male and two young, attractive, female team, who were both exceptional sailors. NetsIt radio it was possible to spend the day, microphone available on a network radio or another of SSB / Ham, filling in spare time on the VHF. The father of them all is peaceful maritime network, which follows the boats dall'Alaska in New Zealand and Mexico in the group Turbine Philippines.Each has installed its own network. We were hoping to capture with the network, started by "Hope To" and continued by other regulators fearless as the previous one has moved out of reach. Then there are subgroups such as the Australians in Bora Bora. In each port there is also a network of local VHF time, chat, advice and articles on trade and sale. It becomes very difficult to finds a free frequency.
Lawrence Pane
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