Very entertaining thread.

I especially like the part where Subaqua says he has sailed “1,000’s of miles” in 5 years.

Just off the top of my head, I've sailed a Trans-Atlantic Delivery, Hawaii to LA Delivery, Seattle to LA Delivery, at least 5 deliveries up the Coast of Mexico back to LA, at least 3 LA to SF’s, at least 6 Newport to Nantucket, over 50 shorter deliveries in the SoCal area, taught sailing for 9 seasons (part time) in NYC Harbor and 4 seasons in MDR, CA, done 13 or so charters, 7 Santa Barbara – King Harbor Races, 3 Ensenadas, one Islands Race, 4 Stamford/Vineyard Races, over 1,000 buoy races, grew up sailing on Nantucket and figure I’ve sailed about 25,000 miles in over 40 years.

I’ve calculated that in an average charter in the BVI you sail less than 100 miles – the last charter I did was St. Lucia to Grenada and I don’t think that was more than 200 miles or so.

You must have been very busy, Subaqua.

BTW, the best sailing advice is “Start first and increase your lead.”