Yes, definitely; in a heart-beat. I can’t swim but I would be more than willing to do that trip. The manual labor wouldn’t even really bother me.
I wouldn’t pay $36K for the experience, though; that just seems…steep.
I’d do it in a heartbeat…
If I was still single, unattached, without a seven-year-old son, jobless, and had an extra $36K burning a hole in my pocket.
As none of the above describes my life, I’ll have to take a pass.
One day and night on a high-seas ferry cured me of all sea travel.
You think you can be on deck? Not even in the Carrib in the summer.
Reminds me of the quote “Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of drowning.” — Johnson
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Absolutely! In fact this is my husband’s and my dream, but we want to do it on our own boat. We own and sail a boat on San Francisco Bay now, but we would need a different one for a circumnavigation, as well as time off from work. Oh, and a doo-doo load of money, of course.
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Hey we must have passed each other sailing in the bay!. My husband and I plan to do a circumnavigation eventually, it is his dream, and I don’t mind going along, but it is going to take a lot of prep work especially if we have kids by then. Right now we are looking to buy a different blue water boat, like the valliant or tartan. And I’m going to take a class that deals with circumnavigations. So I would do it, but only on my boat. One day it will come true, but with a lot of work to be done before that.
Absolutely. Who’s going to pay my entry fee?
Definitely not. I’m afraid of sea monsters.
I would love to, but the cost is kind of prohibitive. I am looking at doing one of the sailing cruises in the Caribbean in the next year or so. Been thinking about it for a few years and some recent developments have pushed it up on the list of things to do.
Let’s see, I’d have to do manual labor (of a type I don’t like) and pay out good money for a long period of time during which I’d be seasick, offline, and away from a good source of new reading material. And jammed in with strangers (not much room on a boat/ship). Sounds like a perfect description of my own personalized Hell!
Ummmm, that would be a “NO!” from me.
My father loves sailing and generally messing around on boats. I was dragged along far too many times. Did I mention my seasickness? I rarely puked, I just felt miserable.
Why no, I’m not bitter about this, why do you ask?
I love those Tartans! One day . . .
Heck yeah! My dad always wanted to do it. He even bought a 32’ sailboat and restored it. I thought he was kind of weird about it when I was a kid, but now I see the appeal.
I’d do it with the right companion on my own boat, not a bunch of strangers on someone else’s. I would want to decide where I’m going and when I’m getting there (well, approximately).
My parents sailed around the world from 1982 to 1986 and had a wonderful time. They retired early (Dad was 54), sold everything, and moved aboard a 36-foot yacht. Their longest passage was 21 days at sea from the Galapagos to the Marquesas, but they never had any major problems. They did two loops of the South Pacific because they enjoyed it so much.