Today we closed on the Morris Justine.
I cannot say enough about how important an offshore experience was in making this final decision. Get out there and imagine shit going bad and how you are going to fix it. Consider that things are going to break in the middle of the night when conditions are tossing you around and waves are breaking into the cockpit. The think of the forces involved, the tension of the sheets, the weight of the rig. Imagine trying to fix things that break because they will. We only had to repair a batten pocket and retrieve the spinnaker after the clew chafed through. A lot worse could have happened on a lesser maintained boat. And then consider how far you are away from anyone. Even the boats in our rally were a half-day away. And then appreciate the motion of a boat designed for ocean sailing. We talked to crew of a Bavaria 40 after the trip and the motion of their boat, which they demonstrated with their hand, sounded miserable.
And then realize how much easier everything will be on a smaller boat.
The money saved is also going to make things much easier. Less need to work means more time to sail
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