New Year Thoughts to Sail-World from an Anonymous Sailor, or..


9:39 PM Fri 26 Dec 2008 GMT
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What I learned in 42,000 nautical miles.

To me 42,000 miles would have once seemed a lot of miles. Now I am not so sure.

But what I learned in those miles is precious, immense, overwhelming in its enormity. One of the chief things I learned is that what I still don't know is much greater than what I have learned.

So from the half-way-skilled sailor, here are the most important things I learned in 42,000 miles, and what I remind myself every morning I wake up on my boat. My credo, again, for 2009:

I should spend as much time in research as in sailing any new route.

I will never leave when the boat's not prepared.

You can't take too many spares.

The weather is God.

The most dangerous thing in the ocean is - LAND

I must never set appointments - I must only give estimates.

I must let someone know where I am on a daily basis.

Caution must always be this sailor's best friend.




by Anonymous


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