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Now, I have done it on some super yachts I've worked on all along the coast of Spain and France and Italy, but, um, when you're like 1,000 miles offshore and there's only another 10 nights of that and it's like bang, bang, bang, you're like, "That's a very nice warm thought." [laughs] Um, another who can spare the time gets his satisfaction by making long passages in the open sea, taking the weather as it comes and driving his yacht day and night until she fetches up in some foreign land.

Uh, the cruising done by the majority, whose numbers are swelling steadily year by year, probably lies between those two extremes.

Nevertheless, the basic knowledge required is identical for all kinds of cruising, and it is one of the fascinations of the sport that the most modest ditch crawler must in some part equip himself with the exact same knowledge and experience that would serve to take his yacht if she were of a suitable type and well found across the oceans of the world.

What an interesting thought.

So it's like, okay, they've worked out a, like an algorithm.

Is that the right word? An equation? Whatever.

A, a process whereby they can input numbers and out comes the end.

When that happens in yacht racing, people immediately start optimizing all the different variables, so they get something popped out at the end, which is like a ratings bandit.

Another who can spare the time gets his satisfaction by making long passages in the open sea, taking the weather as it comes and driving his yacht day and night until she fetches up in some foreign land.

The cruising done by the majority whose numbers are swelling steadily year by year probably lies between those two extremes.

Nevertheless, the basic knowledge required is identical for all kinds of cruising and it is one of the fascinations of the sport that the most modest ditch crawler must in some part equip himself with the exact same knowledge and experience that would serve to take his yacht if she were of a suitable type and well found across the oceans of the world what an interesting thought absolutely how crazy it's like to get to the shops you need to have most of the skills of a formula one driver which definitely my dad thought was within his purview but um it's true right and all the gear like all the safety gear you might say well we'd have more flares i would always have a life raft regardless like you can drown a couple miles offshore like hell's teeth if you're getting down to the point where that's the issue like you're looking at this from the wrong angle but um sure you know so you've got some kind of flotation you've got some kind of life jackets i would always have an ocean life jacket on see above comment um i would always have the flares i would have the spares i'd just have the tools maybe not the food maybe not the fuel maybe not the water but like my attitude for a small boat is colored by big boats And all I'm trying to do on a big boat is make the equipment as small as possible.

So when I get to a little boat, it's like, it's basically the same package of stuff.

It was like LBP minus beam times beam times half of beam all in feet divided by 94.

So it's like, OK, they've worked out a like an algorithm.

Is that the right word? An equation, whatever, a process whereby they can input numbers.

Out comes the end.