Warren—
If you're planning on cruising long-term or long distances... having the skills and ability to go up the mast yourself, with or without crew is a good idea. In many areas, you are going to be the only plumber, electrician, diesel mechanic, and rigger around.
Also, I'd point out that even the most experienced rigger at one point had NO EXPERIENCE at climbing masts... and they had to learn by doing.
Just throwing money at some problems is a poor investment. You wouldn't happen to be a government bureaucrat for a living, would you???
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Telstar 28
New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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