I have learned more about sailing alone than with others. I take the new steel cutter out alone, but to be truthful, less often than I did the 33 footer, because I have yet to install a second throttle-shifter that would allow me to handle the docking
lines in a timely fashion...so I have to pick times when I will be blown ON to my dock, not off, as is the usual case.
But I've learned a lot about docking a bigger, higher freeboard boat when you can't see the dock!
Ignore the nay-sayers. Solo sailing is great, because it is so much better than no sailing at all.