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It’s another boat sacrificed by an owner with poor characteristics. 

Very undesirable.  According to the intarwebs, it's a 1978 Pearson 323 named Delilah or maybe Ginny out of Virginia. 

Design critiques aside, wrong boat.  The boat in trouble is the 79'(spared length, 65' on deck) classic Gruber-designed schooner BARLOVENTO.  It was not sailing and under power with a small crew who didn't know how to sail her.  It is still floating and apparently will be salvaged.  Another...

I think that's a very underappreciated book. 

Your Bialetti would fit perfectly, though the stainless one might be a bit heavy.  That would be a fun boat to blast across passages. Inflatable SUPs with carbon oars don't weigh that much anyways. 

Trimarans have felt to me much more like a light mono in motion, though my understanding is very limited as I've only owned dinghy sized ones and sailed on 30 something foot trimarans and never offshore.  It seemed to me more comfortable than the Open sort of thing.  So something like a de-tuned...

All interesting except maybe the trawler. A trawler might be the last boat I own. The trans-ocean fast tri sounds the most interesting to me.  A good friend showed me that if you get a lobster roll at Day's Lobster in Yarmouth you can peek in to the back of Greene Marine... ground zero for that...

Out of curiosity, what are those six concepts? 

Fair enough. I get the idea you have to draw the line somewhere and that is a simpler way.  Imagine the controversy if you had to grade passages and locations by difficulty? I was just commenting it might be simplistic.  And although Bermuda is an edge case for offshore, the trip from Bermuda to...

It's not, but I'd argue you need to apply more skills than say a "offshore" passage to Bermuda.   I think an addition to the book would have been invaluable to the sailing community. I understand why it didn't happen and egos or not, it's too bad it didn't. 

Are these the same people that don't count a trip to Labrador as an offshore passage? 

No, we're not Luddites.  Like you I'm the deck monkey and she drives.  We've got most of the goodies: electric windlass, B&G instruments, refrigeration, solar, LED lights, radar....etc..  But steering, navigation, lighting, plumbing and cooking are ether manual or have a manual backup.  To...

But the reaction you get these days when you set up your boat so that critical things operate without electricity....it’s like you’re a prepper or something. 

Fair enough. One of few blessings of getting older is knowing what you want better and caring less about what others think of it.    For me, I really enjoy the solitude of being offshore, the sense of having traveled before I arrive somewhere.  Even going back to when I was a kid sailing with...

I believe those days are gone. You have to go really far off piste these days as compared to 30 years ago to achieve the same level of remoteness.   No more people asking you to use your binoculars to look in their stomach because it hurts. No more crossing two rivers and a several days hike to...

Yes. Not to be flip, no one wants to die, but that's what gives it meaning.  When I was young, I spent time sailing on a square rigger offshore and living in rugged places, days walk away from any, "help" kind of places; where people, nature, or my own poor judgment could mean my demise.  I've...

I see. So it's like unlocking an achievement. Level up and prepare for the Southern Ocean Big Boss Battle. 

Yeah, no kidding. I'm just figuring out how to increase the negative stability of my boat...being that you have to sail upside-down and all....is that a service they provide in Fiji? 

True...but I'm figuring for some detours on the way. 

Cool! We're coming from the East coast of the US, so it might take us a while....