On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 17:12:38 -0500, Boating All Out
wrote:

In article ,
says...

http://www.news-press.com/article/20...sail-Caribbean


"The couple says they are self-taught sailors. Shaidle took an American Sailing associates class, but learned most of the information he needed by reading and researching online."

I wish them well, though.

As long as they can navigate, watch the weather, and the boat doesn't
break down, they should be okay.
Hope it goes well.
But I'm fully expecting some troubles.
Here's their website.
http://lahowind.com/

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They are sort of neighbors about 30 miles down the road from us
although we don't know them - lots of boats and boaters around here.

Having done that trip twice on our boat, "some troubles" is sort of
par for the course. It's a long trip in a small boat and things
happen. Hopefully they've done their homework, have redundancy in
critical systems, carry some tools and spares, etc. They have a good
boat but not much experience with international, off shore cruising.
Lots of other people do that route every year and most do just fine as
long as they're skilled and adaptable. They're fortunate to be able
to do a trip like that at a relatively young age.