No...if you had a catalina 22 sailboat, what is the furthest away from shore would you take it?
Would you take it offshore?
You mean "farthest", not "furthest".If you had a Catalina 22 sailboat, what is the furthest away from shore would you take it?
Would you take it offshore?
Pretty amazing, when you think about it, that we've reached the point of the mindset being so commonplace, that having the means to call for help might actually make all the difference whether to go, or not...Even so, I would only go in good conditions with lots of planning and ways to call for help.
That's a really good question. To some degree, I think it would mute most of us to some degree. I certainly wouldn't stop sailing, nor cruising. However, if every coastal passage had to be the same prep as an offshore passage, it would naturally limit the ability to go.......I wonder how many among us might give up sailing, or stop venturing out of sight of land on small boats, if all means of summoning assistance were somehow suddenly denied to us?
Nice!This couple went to the Bahamas from Key Largo on a C22- Catalina Direct Clubhouse Forums
I am old enough to have spent many days on the water ( & doing things that were far more dangerous ) before cell phones, so I feel I can actually answer this; I think it would make very few people give up any adventure type sport. We might act slightly differently without celll phone communications, we might bring a few extra tools, practice swimmingSeems an interesting question, I wonder how many among us might give up sailing, or stop venturing out of sight of land on small boats, if all means of summoning assistance were somehow suddenly denied to us?
No, of course not... I was thinking more of our modern means of "calling for help" - VHF/HF radios, cell phones, EPIRBS, Sat phones, SPOT, and the like...Now you can't really mean "all means of summoning assistance". Not sure what that really means - does that include flares and distress flags?