[PUP] Where are the PUPs?

[John Marshall]

Depends on what you mean by passagemakers.

1) If you consider coastal cruising (Chile to Alaska, Newfoundland to  
Florida), island hopping in the Caribbean and Central America or from  
Tasmania to Southeast Asia as passagemaking, then we're here and have  
been participating.

Many of us spend most of our time out on our boats, going somewhere,  
rather than at home.

2) But if you are talking about true blue-water passagemakers, with  
the Azores and Hawaii as the first qualifying stops on east and west  
coast of US, or in general, people doing 1000 to 3000 mile open water  
passages, then those folks are likely out of range of fast, cheap  
internet connections, so they are unlikely to participate in chatty  
newsgroups. To your point, none of the folks I know who are doing that  
in power boats are participating.

So... not sure what kind of valuable information you are looking for  
and from whom. I've seen plenty of posts on PUP by people who are part  
of (1) above.

John Marshall
Serendipity - N5520
Sequim Bay, WA


On Jan 13, 2009, at 3:15 AM, Truelove39 at aol.com wrote:

> I believe I have met many more passage making folk who are not  
> members  of
> this list than are participating. That is to say, those members who   
> are
> actually passage making or have done so.
> Despite encouraging non-members to join, not one has done so.   
> Certainly, not
> everyone wishes to participate in such a forum, but I am still   
> surprised at
> all the valuable info which is going to waste and not being   
> disseminated,
> save brief and usually uninformative spreads in print  mags.
>
> Any ideas on how we could get more real passage makers to share there
> experience here?
>
> Regards,
>
> John
> "Seahorse"
>
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