Boat Forum / Cruising / July 2008

I can't help but notice that Capt. Joe sometimes is posting from Miami.

Being just a hop, skip and jump from Miami in Paradise in the Florida Keys
and possessed of a stout, capable, been there-done that, little blue water
voyager, I am offering, gratis, sailing lessons for the hapless skipper of
the erstwhile motor sailer, "Red Cloud."

Included in these free sailing lessons will be the following important
topics.

1) How to select competent crew
2) How to weather a cold front at sea.
3) How to make sure your vessel is seaworthy.
4) How to rid yourself of that yellow stripe up your back.
5) How to research the local weather patterns so as to take maximum possible
advantage of prevailing weather patterns - i.e. when to go and when not to
go.
6) How to realize pilothouse sailboats are not seaworthy.
7) Understanding that GRP trumps steel every time when it comes to blue
water sailing yachts.
8) How to know that coffee isn't where it's at.
9) How to know in your heart that trying and failing is failing. So simple.
10) How to realize that women have no place at sea unless they are being
used as chum.

Please consider my serious offer. I'd hate to think poor Joe will go out
there and fail again simply because nobody offered to teach him how to
succeed.

Wilbur Hubbard