On NPR's website this morning: My wife and I quit our jobs to sail the Caribbean

[Jim Mahan]

By Scott Neuman.

There's another universe not far from land.

It is devoid of buildings, trees, cars, cellphones and the internet. Seemingly limitless water extends uninterrupted in all directions.

You don't have to travel a great distance to discover this other cosmos. At 10 miles offshore, you're already there. At 100 miles, on a course away from shipping lanes (about a full day's sail in a small boat), the effect is complete: Civilization recedes, along with any sign of humanity.

It's the closest most of us will ever come to the isolation of outer space. And it is why I'm really into sailing.

The rest of the short article, here: http://npr.org/2023/01/23/1115921987...oats-caribbean

[wizbang 13]

Sailed around for a few years then packed it in.

[ron ll]

Looks like a Perry designed CT (or Baba) 37. I spent a couple of months on a friend’s in Canada one summer. She and her late husband had done a lot of ocean cruising on it.

[bamamick]

That's a great story and a very nice cruising boat. When I bought the sharpie schooner from a guy in Key West the marina where we pulled it was adjacent to harbor filled with a bunch of run down looking cruising yachts. I asked the yard manager about them and he just laughed, saying that it was the 'harbor of broken dreams', and that most of the boats had just been abandoned by people who had bought into some Jimmy Buffet-fed dream of living a life of leisure in some faraway harbor where they could eat fish tacos and drink rum all day. There are a lot of derelict boats out there that began as someone's dream.

Mickey Lake