GL: Sngle handling locks on the loop

[Elaine Reib]

 What is needed is to get the 3 single female sailors together with 3 of the
 single male sailors and then I'll take one from the pick so I can go too!

 Elaine
 717-479-5012
 ELReib at comcast.net
 Be Yourself, Everyone else is already taken.
 Oscar Wilde
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Wayne & Lynn Flatt" <mvskinwalker at hotmail.com>
> To: <great-loop at lists.samurai.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 8:56 AM
> Subject: GL: Sngle handling locks on the loop
>
>
>> John Foltz gave a good treatsie on handling a boat in the locks 
>> yesterday.
>> However, singlehanding is much less about boat handling then it is about 
>> time
>> management and socialization concepts.
>>
>> If single handling obviously one is doing everything, and in general 
>> living
>> aboard is a two person job.  before getting underway each morning one 
>> must
>> make provisions for fuel, food, chart selection, routing, boat prep, 
>> bodily
>> functions and a host of other things that are difficult to impossible for 
>> one
>> person to do while making a passage.  At the end of the day there is 
>> still
>> boat maintenance, dinner, next day routing and finding time to explore 
>> and
>> enjoying the benefits of cruising.
>>
>> The actual boat handling is a piece of cake compared to the day in and 
>> day out
>> routine tasks.
>>
>> Sure it can be and is accomplished, but it takes planning, pre-meditation 
>> and
>> a strong desire to be on ones own.  I personally, don't have a reason to 
>> live
>> that way, though there are a few out there that do.  We know personally 
>> three
>> single handed female sailors and know of five male single handers.  Each
>> prefers not to be alone, but find the adventure too appealing to dismiss
>> because of loneliness.
>>
>> Wayne & Lynn Flatt
>> MV Skinwalker
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