Hey Mike, Thanks again for the info. We are going to take all the courses we can find, will check with the Coast Guard too, thanks. My husband spent 12 years on a boat in the Navy (not a sailboat!) and he is going to take sailing lessons, as he has almost no sailing experience.
The only thing about your post that made me say "oh, nooooo" was your comment that after a few years we should know how to dock and sail the boat..... sheesh, I hope it doesn''t take that long... a few years from now we are planning to sell the house and buy a big sailboat and live on it..... any hints for speeding up that timetable??
I''m clueless at to the PHRF rating you put in your post... does it actually tell how easy a boat is to sail or how fast?? Where do you find that information? So the ratings, the O''Day vs. your C&C means the O''Day isn''t as fast?
I''ve got the makings of a safe captain anyways, I don''t have any problem admiting to my inexperience so I''d be happy to just sit on my boat in the slip and have lunch as opposed to taking her out in weather that I don''t have the experience to handle. Since I''ve got a child I''d wouldn''t consider doing anything stupid.
bailey