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Message: [QUOTE="prankster, post: 3972975, member: 14"] In 1972 ( my sophomore year at UConn), I participated in the Newport to Bermuda race. Hell of a race. 55mph winds for 48 hours, 30 foot seas. You can look it up. Imagine driving a 60,000 pound truck off the side of a 3 storey building, every 2 to 3 minutes for two days. Not for sissies. People finished that race with black and blue marks on their eyelids, from being smuck with raindrops moving at 60 mph. 650 miles, offshore, point to point. No safe harbor within 350, miles in any direction, minimum. You literally are your own floating island in the middle of the ocean. You have what you have, in terms of tools, spare parts, etc. Plus whatever skills you (and your fellow crew) bring along with you. Something breaks, you must fix it with your own skills and whatever you have on hand. Think of it a bit like that movie Apollo 13, but without mission control as backup. Fall overboard? Oh, you are gone. [/QUOTE]