Who is a 'bluewater skipper'? What is 'bluewater preparation'?

[s/v Jedi]

Originally Posted by jackdale

That is not quite true. AMVER can arrange for someone to come to you.

https://www.amver.com/Content/Docs/P...ss_release.pdf

https://youtu.be/NBn7drXizb0

The Coast Guard can deliver water pumps as well - 200 miles offshore.

https://youtu.be/_NJsE-ztaTM

The blue water sailor should know what is available and how to reach out for assistance.

Sorry but no, your planning can not rely on help coming to you during offshore passages. Whatever is available, may or may not be available and can not, must not be relied upon: it is purely an option of last resort.

[boatman61]

^^^^^^

[carstenb]

Originally Posted by s/v Jedi

Sorry but no, your planning can not rely on help coming to you during offshore passages. Whatever is available, may or may not be available and can not, must not be relied upon: it is purely an option of last resort.

Indeed - this is a truism

[Mike OReilly]

This is why you should consider storage and tankage when answering the "bluewater" question, along with other factors. A bluewater boat needs to be able to operate independently for long periods.

[kayakerChuck]

Not to brag, but I've been a blue water boater my entire life, just about 40 miles north of Detroit. I've enjoyed power boats, sailboats, Windsurfers, swimming, SCUBA diving, and I've even WALKED over the Blue Water Bridge.

It's a great area to visit if you get the chance. Except for the current under the bridge, it's an easy area to sail.
https://www.michigan.org/hot-spots/blue-water-area

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZLeaSWY37I

[jackdale]

Originally Posted by s/v Jedi

Sorry but no, your planning can not rely on help coming to you during offshore passages. Whatever is available, may or may not be available and can not, must not be relied upon: it is purely an option of last resort.

Those resources worked for me.

[goboatingnow]

Originally Posted by Mike OReilly

This is why you should consider storage and tankage when answering the "bluewater" question, along with other factors. A bluewater boat needs to be able to operate independently for long periods.

Water can be made and diesel tankage isn’t enough anyway on long journeys. Tankage is a trade off like everything else. We crossed the Atlantic and only used 250 litres of water. !! ( 3 men )

[Mike OReilly]

Originally Posted by goboatingnow

Water can be made and diesel tankage isn’t enough anyway on long journeys. Tankage is a trade off like everything else. We crossed the Atlantic and only used 250 litres of water. !! ( 3 men )

You can cross an ocean in a bathtub. That doesn't make it a bluewater boat.

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by goboatingnow

Water can be made and diesel tankage isn’t enough anyway on long journeys. Tankage is a trade off like everything else. We crossed the Atlantic and only used 250 litres of water. !! ( 3 men )

I don't know.. you can go a bludi long way on the two tanks in a Lagoon 450 running just one engine at a time on 5kts... you could definitely do the Atlantic with a fuel stop at the Azores I reckon.

[s/v Jedi]

Originally Posted by boatman61

I don't know.. you can go a bludi long way on the two tanks in a Lagoon 450 running just one engine at a time on 5kts... you could definitely do the Atlantic with a fuel stop at the Azores I reckon.

Except of course when your bulkheads fall apart down into the cracked bilge

[aqfishing]

Originally Posted by s/v Jedi

Except of course when your bulkheads fall apart down into the cracked bilge

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by s/v Jedi

Except of course when your bulkheads fall apart down into the cracked bilge

[DMF Sailing]

Originally Posted by goboatingnow

Water can be made and diesel tankage isn’t enough anyway on long journeys. Tankage is a trade off like everything else. We crossed the Atlantic and only used 250 litres of water. !! ( 3 men )

But if you subsisted on liquids you had in the hold, isn't that also a question of storage?

[s/v Jedi]

So here’s the thing: we all know what a blue water boat is after that other thread… a blue water boat can take a sailor across an ocean… but a blue water sailor can take any boat across that ocean

[DMF Sailing]

Originally Posted by s/v Jedi

So here’s the thing: we all know what a blue water boat is after that other thread… a blue water boat can take a sailor across an ocean… but a blue water sailor can take any boat across that ocean

Yes, the genesis of this thread was that one, and I'm getting the idea from many posts, especially your detailed one.

Definitely Boatman has described crossing oceans in a Beneteau 323, a boat I wouldn't take from Boston to Provincetown (50 nm.)

Ergo he is a 'bluewater sailor' and I am a self-described-happy-to-be coastal slacker.

Though I'd love to be on a Beneteau 323 when Boatman is the skipper and I watch him do it. But I'm afraid for that to happen, I have to buy one and hire him.

EDIT: Tossing in the grin emoji