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This is a older thread that deserves to be a Sailnet poll.
IMHO this is best measured in the time it takes to get to your boat, since traffic and mode of transportation vary widely. If you have to row out to your boat, count that time to. So it's door-to-door, or door-to-hatch if you prefer.
If you move her (as I do in the winter), use the average distance.
I'm glad you asked in minutes, I really struggle with archaic measurement system like cubits, feet and miles. BTW I have small feet so does that make me further away?
In cursing boats you don't think about the physical distance in a comparative sense, but rather how long it will take to get there (or how much time you will have to enjoy getting there). In the same way different boats travel at different speeds, so do different boat owners.
Among physicists there is a tangible measurement of distance, a nanosecond, the distance it takes light to travel in one nanosecond (one billionth of a second) = 29.98cm/11.803in.
That picture is just awesome. You really have it good.
It's winter time now, so our boat is 25 minutes away on the hard. I try to get there every week to monitor the battery voltages among other things.
I'm planning to lauch in early April (not late June like last year). If we get in well before everyone else, maybe we'll have a few weeks before we get kicked out to go to our summer cruising grounds, which are 100 miles away.
Here in Texas we never ask how far it is somewhere, it is always too far. So instead of asking how far we just ask how long does it take to get there. As for my boat it is sitting in the driveway about 10 seconds or 10 to the 19 nano seconds away.
There's more to it than just how long it takes to get to the boat. There's also how long it takes to get the boat to where you can actually sail. We had a choice -- put the boat at a marina 5-15 minutes from our house but then spend 1.5 to 2 hours motoring out to the bay or put the boat in a marina an hour or so from our house but once we leave the marina we're out sailing.
We chose the latter.
Very true.. we were in a similar situation.. though the driving time was similar (15-30 minutes) , we are now literally 5 minutes from sailing, whereas before we had a tidal narrows that meant either 30 or 60 minutes to the bay depending on current - and at some times there was no getting in or out (currents 7-9 knots) and even with manageable currents the wind over the flow made for dangerous seas at times.
Much happier now, despite more city driving to get to the boat.
5 minutes on foot, to my community beach/jetty.
10 minutes of prep to get underway.
15 minutes of motoring to get where a skilled sailor can cut the engine if the wind is blowing from the right direction, 30 minutes if it's not.
I have to chime in. I can see my boat from my apartment. I can be in my living room and decide to go for a sail and be on the Bay under sail in 15 minutes. If the wind is right I can sail out of my slip and out of the creek. If I am really lucky I can sail back into the slip too. Every day I am still in awe at what a great find this place is.
I can't help it. I grew up in Indiana and taught myself to sail on large ponds. Moving to the east coast has been one of the highlights of my life. Not too bad for a farm boy!
Lucky me! The dock is just behind the apartment complex. I look out the window, see a breeze in the trees and on Medicine Lake, call a friend, and be ready to go before they show up with breakfast! I'm also the only sailboat at dock so they let me have the end where I can easily dock from either direction instead of entering a slip. I think I'm spoiled with my first sailboat!
Although we are just over an hour away from our slip, it is not a long distance relative to our typical work commutes. But there is a glimmer of the work commute ending in a few more years with the free time expanding - and the grandkids could spend more time with us...
We are members of two yacht clubs.
Our current yacht, a 23foot Windrush Wildfire trailer sailer, is kept 5 minutes drive from home at The Cruising Yacht Club of Western Australia.
Our previous boat, a Sparkman & Stephens 34, was kept 35 minutes drive away, at Fremantle Sailing Club.
124 feet, but I am about to walk into living room and cut that down 90 feet.
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