Up until now we have been talking about a successive series of experiences to build up your sailing experience before taking “the big leap”. We talked about how to test out sailing, how to build experience in your local area and how to work your way up to costal cruising. Now we want to make it clear that there are a lot of people spend their entire sailing lives doing costal cruising and are quite happy, with good reason. We know sailors who have spent the past 5 years doing nothing more than exploring the Pacific Coast of Mexico and have new experiences each and every day. Using that as a base, how long you reckon it would take to explore the entire cost of North and South America? Ok, now after that you can hit up the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, and with a flight or two, South East Asia and Australia. Overall, it’d take a while. There are plenty of adventures to be had and cultures to be explored in costal cruising because, well, there is a lot of coast out there.
But then, there’s a lot of ocean out there as well…and that’s the rub. Yes, there are many places you can explore with costal cruising but there also a couple of good sized seas and, of course, two oceans. Two very big oceans…
and way out there in the deep, that’s the domain of the bluewater cruisers
