viv grimshaw - 12/23/00 12:23:38
My Email:vivG@zeeboom.com
Country: uk
Do you sail?: yes
Plans for long-distance cruising?: yes (but when?)

Comments:
thanks for a really enjoyable and interesting site,sitting here in offshore Angola (on an oil suvey ship) at christmas,it's made me really impatient to get home and go cruising, now if i can only make the big jump acxross the pond....best regards viv

Bob Turnbull - 09/07/00 09:37:32
My Email:bms@globalnet.co.uk
Country: U.K.
Do you sail?: Yes
Plans for long-distance cruising?: Yes

Comments:
A great site, one of the guys. Hopefully I shall join you with my boat in 2001/2. Still looking for the femail missing link though. Keep up the great work. Fair winds!

Ann Smith - 09/02/00 18:04:44
My Email:gats@scathlowen.freeserve.co.uk
Country: England
Do you sail?: yes
Plans for long-distance cruising?: yes

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We are hoping to be ready to leave before xmas 2000 heading for the Med, Canaries then the Caribbean and knows after that? We have a 13 year old son coming too. Any information would be helpful.

Clark Rasco - 07/13/00 22:28:48
My Email:kralc100@aol.com
Country: USA
Do you sail?: Hawaii
Plans for long-distance cruising?: Hopefully

Comments:
Hi, I love your website. It is full of usefull information. I noticed you sail (Atlantic Crossing) with a fin keel...I have just purchased a Yamaha 33 for sailing and liveaboard on Oahu, HI. Have you heard of this boat or its performance offshore? It s also a fin keel (with a skeg rudder). She sails very well but I wonder how she would do in the deep blue during an ocean passage. I am years from having the experianc to attempt this. Any comments?

- 07/08/00 13:23:45

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jb jerden - 03/19/00 14:14:55
My URL:http://members.theglobe.com/huckphotovi/sail.html
My Email:huckphotovi@THEGLOBE.COM
Country: USVI
Do you sail?: YES
Plans for long-distance cruising?: WYES

Comments:
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Jurrien Gunnink - 10/21/99 10:03:35
My Email:jkwgunnink@hotmail.com
Country: Holland
Do you sail?: O Yes!!!
Plans for long-distance cruising?: Yes

Comments:
Wonderfull site, makes me want to leave to, but I'm affraid I'll have to wait a bit. Enjoy your lifestyle, and have lots of fun and luck! Goodbye, Jurrien

Dave Shillibeer - 09/26/99 17:09:48
My URL:http://bevvydiaper.com
My Email:dnd@flex.net
Country: USA
Do you sail?: Just starting
Plans for long-distance cruising?: Quite possibly

Comments:
9-26-99 Very much enjoyed your writeup, particularly the Atlantic crossing, and the Xmas piss-up's. Having dual US/British citizenship, I understand the dubious American jokes; but do try to be a little more generous. They are not all bad!!! Also, where can I look to see "crew needed" advertisements? Thanks again.

Ray Norris - 09/14/99 14:12:27
My Email:Mary. Norris@virginnet.com.
Country: scotland
Do you sail?: yes

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Randy - 08/04/99 03:20:04
My Email:prog666@hotmail.com
Country: usa
Do you sail?: not currently
Plans for long-distance cruising?: yes

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My parents just retired and now live on a boat in the Caribbean and I got a chance to visit them for a couple of weeks this past summer. I really enjoyed it and am thinking of doing the same thing when I retire.

Chris Drew - 05/11/99 03:14:21
My Email:drew@eagle.ca
Country: Canada
Do you sail?: A little
Plans for long-distance cruising?: Just dreaming

Comments:
A phantastic page! The combination of useful information and interseting experiences make this one of my most favourite sites (I started visiting a little over a year ago). I am currently getting some experience in weekly races at the local Yacht club but have a long way to go. Keep up the good work & best of luck on your current voyage. I'll drop in now & again to see how things are going. Chris Drew

Kurt Sorensen - 05/08/99 19:53:30
My Email:kurt.maler.sorensen@get2net.dk
Country: Denmark
Do you sail?: Yes certainly
Plans for long-distance cruising?: yes 2 years to my pesionage

Comments:
Sailing a Waaschip 1/2 ton great boat but old. Any out there, who have comments conserning a cheap selfsteer also comments wanted on fitting to the transom, which is a bit special on my boat. The main rudders after part is about 30 cm behind the transom at the bottom end. Best wishes to all at home and abroad Kurt

mike - 04/24/99 01:49:30
My Email:postal_guy@msn.com
Country: USA
Do you sail?: some
Plans for long-distance cruising?: yes

Comments:
Thanks for all the info on your site. I'll be retired in 6 years and plan on living in the Carribean on a boat. You may already have solved your motor problem by now, but if not, I believe that the rings are worn and exhaust gas pressure is building up inside the block, causing the smoke from the block. Its called "blow-by". This would also explain your lack of po er. The pressure also tends to blow oil spray out of the dipstick hole. If this is happening, it needs at least a ring job if not an overhaul. Its just got too many miles on it.

- 04/03/99 18:07:52

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Jen - 03/08/99 23:42:49
My Email:jgarske@ap.org
Country: USA
Do you sail?: Yes
Plans for long-distance cruising?: gotta keep working!

Comments:
Found your website on Floatplan. Great reading, especially about crossing the Atlantic. I was certified in Bonaire - the diving is terrific but restaurants & rooms are expensive. Most food except the delicious local goat is imported from Venezuela or the etherlands. We met a man, a 50-something retired lawyer from Washington DC who was working on becoming a dive master. His was one of only two or three cruising boats we could see there in March 1998. My cutie pie & I have (are paying for) a 40 foot Allied Wright ketch we sail around the Chesapeake Bay. Come visit - The water is unfortunately green and opaque, but the blue crabs are delicious and the variety of available alcohol is infinite! Computer work is easy to find and pays well here, too.

Mike Thurman - 01/22/99 13:43:27
My Email:mike_thurman@scotiamarkets.com
Country: UK
Do you sail?: no

Comments:
Enjoyed the new pages, especially those concerning Carnival. Enjoy the new trip - good diving in Bonaire, they tell me...

Jim Schrader - 01/12/99 20:37:38
My Email:jtcsail@uswest.net
Country: USA
Do you sail?: Yes
Plans for long-distance cruising?: Yes - Late 99

Comments:
I've enjoyed reading of your travels. Hopefully you'll have a chance to respond before you and Annibelle leave for the 99 cruise. You mentioned that you thought Trinidad was a good place to purchase a sailboat. I'm trying to figure out a way to avoid payi g US sales tax and hadn't considered the foreign angle. Can you tell me more -or- put me in touch with someone in the know. Fair Winds, Jim

simon & katie - 01/03/99 17:54:23
My Email:garrison.s@pg.com
Country: UK
Do you sail?: yes
Plans for long-distance cruising?: yes, in our Nicholson 35

Comments:
Thoroughly enjoyed reading about your experiences in "Avalon of Arne". Thanks for taking the time to write about them. You've given us a great taste of the life we can expect when we begin our own adventures in the Caribbean later this year. We look fo ward to reading further instalments, and perhaps to meeting you one day in an anchorage on one of the Caribbean islands! Happy sailing... Simon & Katie