So tell me about boats.

[BigTim]

[yen_powell]

[steve the grease]

I know very little about sailing, having only done some dinghy stuff at school camp, and tillered a yacht for half an hour last year.

However I have just watched a dinghy sailing across the bitches , near Strumble head in wales on Thursday. For a while the boat was moving more in the vertical plane than it was forward in a most disconcerting and uncomfortable looking fashion. This is 200 metres off the Welsh coast, never mind the largest ocean in the world.

I think you are proposing a trip, which, whilst it sounds lovely, is so far outside your skill set , that you are not really aware of the dangers, nor really the skills you would need to complete such a trip.

Sorry to be blunt.
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[mentalboy]

[MCN]

[mentalboy]

[Ribenapigeon]

This guy is worth looking at, he sailed a 22ft`er from Los Angeles to Hawai. AN this vid he talks about his experience before doing the trip.
https://youtu.be/ecRmhAT5WbU

[Ribenapigeon]

We will keep an eye out for you.
https://boatwatch.org/

Some sobering action https://youtu.be/AvpamVrhQTo

[BigTim]

just out of curiosity are there any decent Games/Simulations involving sailing? I'm currently reading a Alexander Kent Navel Fiction book, quite fancy a nautical game at the moment.

I very rarely play PC games but...

Edit:

Answered my own question, but not sure if no' 24 is Gay porn or a game.

The 20+ Best PC Sailing Games on Steam

1 VR Regatta - The Sailing Game
2 Sailaway - The Sailing Simulator
3 Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Released: 2013 (Ubisoft Ukraine)
4 Sid Meier's Pirates!
5 marineverse added Pancake Sailor
6 Windward
7 Blackwake
8 Tempest: Pirate Action RPG
9 Salt
10 Naval Action
11 The Pirate: Caribbean Hunt
12 Pirate Bundle
13 Sea Dogs: To Each His Own - the Caleuche
14 The Last Leviathan
15 Sea Dogs: To Each His Own - Hero Of The Nation
16 Sea Dogs
17 Best Of HeroCraft - Developer Bundle
20 JiPS
22 Soul Searching
24 Burly Men At Sea
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[martin734]

[Ste]

[Polarbear]

[Ribenapigeon]

[Ste]

We Found 4 Clips With "Scrimshaw"



"Expect detailed work as this naval nurse checks your scrimshaw. She lathers up your bottom with lubricant. That warm happy feeling is the hot bulb of her penlight as she digs for secret loot."



We Found 1 Clips With "Polarbear"

[Ribenapigeon]

[Nobby the Bastard]

[Ribenapigeon]

[mentalboy]

[Polarbear]

[Ribenapigeon]

[Ribenapigeon]

We've killid Itchys dream haven't we? I feel bad

[mentalboy]

[steve the grease]

[Polarbear]

Just to give some people an idea of what the seas can be like and what mentalboy went through in his little sailboat....

This was taken in the 70's by a friend of mine in an 18000 ton tanker going across Biscay in winter. It's a shitty faded old photo but it's the best one where I actually know some of the people who were there. They still talk about it when we get together and reminisce.

https://i.postimg.cc/g2hmYqjP/biscay.jpg
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[mentalboy]

^^^I have done some silly shit in my time - falling 60' on a big lead was a bit of a lifechanger for my back, I've had a boulder the size of a mini move and squeeze the shit out of me in a mine, I've been trashed kayaking in monster storm waves around Drake's Island in Plymouth Sound, had some 'interesting' capsizes on grade 4 rivers, fallen through rotten boat decks, eaten tarmac on far too many occasions - and yet that Biscay trip was the only time I have ever thought that I was going to die.
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