[Rhodes22-list] Re: Salt Water Sailing

[Rik Sandberg]

Richard,

Wow, do you think if those relatively benign conditions were too much 
for those folks, that it would have been possible to make sailors of them??

We have never spent time in salt water yet. We have though, beat all day 
long in 15 to 20 knot breezes against a 3 to 4 foot wind driven chop, 
both in our R22 and now in our Flicka. This to make the trip from the 
bridge across KY Lake, back up to Light House Landing marina, which is 
about 20 miles. Fetch with that wind direction was also about 20 miles, 
against the current. We actually found this quite exhilarating, but also 
pretty tiring. NOT particularly scary though.

But, all this makes me curious: Would the conditions you described on 
this trip around the Statue of Liberty somehow be tougher or worse than 
the conditions I just described?

Rik Sandberg