Poll: How much time would you like to spend on your boat?

[Mundaysj]

Nice to know that I'm not the only one that plans to spend her retirement on a boat.  I'm planning on a hop across the big pond and then explore the Mediterranean.  Will have to move up to a bigger boat by then....don't think I'm brave enough to take a 23 footer across the Atlantic.   7 years and counting down..
Sherie

[Bob23]

   A trip across the Atlantic is one of my dreams, but I may have to settle for some coastal cruising in the 23. I don't want to become a slave to a bigger boat and these 23's have been sailed all over. Can one make it across? Sure. Can one sink in the bay? Absolutely.
   I've read many stories of crossings and circumnavigations in smaller boats than ours. If you get a chance, pick up "Lone Voyager" which is the story of Howard Blackburn, a Gloucester fisherman. The namesake of the Blackburn Challenge, a 20 mile open water (read: ocean) rowing race around Cape Ann, Mass.
   I loved it...but then I love to row!
Bob23, countin' down to Sat. launch!!!!!

[Bob23]

   Well, one trip I'd like to take here in NJ is out Barnegat Inlet (one of the most dangerous in the country, I'm told) up to Manasquan inlet, down through the Point Pleasant canal into Bay Head and south into Barnegat Bay on down to Surf City, my home port. We'll see if it materializes.
   Having a 23 gives my the opportunity to explore, one of my insatiable desires. Had it since I was a kid and got into trouble following my dreams sometimes. Is there any better way to get into trouble?
   When I had my Seapearl, I really enjoyed exploring creeks and the like. You can take one of those boats almost anywhere except heavy air. I like the 1350 lbs of cocrete in my keel.
   Bob23, launched today, happy!

[Solscor]

One day a week

[Craig Weis]

"I'm planning on a hop across the big pond and then explore the Mediterranean.  don't think I'm brave enough to take a 23 footer across the Atlantic.  Sherie"

Well to some extent I believe it's not the size of the boat as much as the quality of the boat. No I don't think I'd brave a 23, but some loony sailed a 19 from Calf to Hawaii in about 33 [?] days...The boat came back on a freighter.
I think a 20 foot Dana would be nice, or a 22 foot I forget what they call it but it's a Dana but 2 foot longer.
Our USPS, District 10, Door County Squadron Port Captain Markus sailed his 36 foot Mariner Sanctity from Sweden to America.

Oh and remember. The bigger the boat the less you'll go sailing. skip.

[Bob Condon]

Jerry Spiess sailed a 10' from Maine to ENgland and San Franscisco to Australia around 1979.

Heard him speak and it was marvelous... he has a book out now...

The boat has a deck as strong as a hull so "when" it rolled over, it self righted itself
and yes it did happen.

Going to England, he had no supporters so his equipment was minimal... Going to Australia,
he had lots of supporters which ALL wanted their gear on board. His tale that the navagation gear
crapped out in SF bay so it was big and bulky, so he pitched it overboard... it was only worth 10-20K...
and he navagated the boat with a map and looking at the underside of the clouds. He said that the air over
an island is warmed which makes a could OVER the island. He said you can look out, and you see the backside of the
map by looking at all the clouds... It is how the original inhabitants of the islands got around.

VERY VERY VERY interesting man.

At the same location (sponsored by my company ) was Jim Lovell from Apollo 13..

this was a reward conference for working hard and doing good work for the company so they gave
back to us by having speakers who did geat things in their life...

[over40pirate]

My dream since my early 30's is to cruise the ICW from at least Norfolk, VA to Miami, FL or a bit beyond. But life continues to get in the way of it. My first wife hated boats (all kinds) so that took care of things thru my early 40's. My wife now loves the boats we've had (first power and now sail), but now there's not enough time off to be able to do the trip. And she's behind me 100% if I can arrage things to make it happen. So I would like to spend 2-3 months doing the cruise then 2-3 weekends on it per month after that.

[lostsailor101]

Great Question....Thanks for asking.

Well I love to fish just as much as I love to sail, throw in a couple more hobbies such as a day or two of diving, catching a wave when there is a swell moving through. I better not forget the long list of honey do's, and grass to cut.  I try to get out one or two evenings during the week and maybe one weekend a month, is usually what I can do. What I would like to do, get in as many days as possible, but there is more to life than just sailing. I try to enjoy each day I have on this earth, and take the as they come.

[Bob23]

Whadayamean there's more to life than just sailing?
Bob23

[brackish]

It would be my desire to live aboard (larger boat than a CP23) and cruise extensively.  I would like to have a home base with a simple cabin/woodshop for "vacations" off the boat. 

Won't happen though, the Admiral is strictly a shore duty person, will go for short sails, even overnight occasionally, but she is not going to live aboard.