Yacht for solo trip to Hawaii?

Don't forget the Anchorage Yacht Club. Located in Lake Forest, IL.

Can people survive for 66 days on the fish they catch? Absolutely if they're good fishermen and have the equipment and bait. Can they survive on rainwater? That depends a lot on how much it rains and what they have to collect it.

You would be very foolish to rely on catching fish to supplement your stores. If you catch some it is a good bonus but if not you don't want to starve.

You should also bear in mind that while sailing unless you want to tack or drop the sails you will always be moving ahead, this adds to the drag on any fish you get so your mahi mahi will soon be skimming along in the surface and your tuna near the bottom - the jaws of neither are really as appetizing as the rest of the fish

I prefer a heavy handline on a sailboat

BTW Blue Ghost, hope you noticed this thread: http://www.yachtforums.com/index.ph...-days-found-by-coast-guard.24528/#post-214356 How's your navigation skills when the GPS dies? Hawaii is a speck in a very large ocean.

I am not sure that thread should be used as an example of what can happen after a mishap leaves you drifting for 66 days at sea. There is quite some chatter on the web about the guys physical condition and story after so long living on the hul of his yacht.

Normally after 66 days on your own on an upturned hull if your lucky enough to survive you would be either cooked to a crisp or a lot more bedraggled than what has been shown on the goggle box so far.

I thought I read that he was inside, but got rolled several times. Am I wrong? I sense an undercurrent of speculation that this whole thing is a hoax. Pretty elaborate if it is. Either way though it stands as a cautionary tale about just getting in a boat and setting off thinking about calm seas and blue skies.

Pasta, canned stuff , bottled water and long life milk and you can stave off starvation for quite a while.

Sailboats do not travel in straight ( well almost) lines like motor boats so be prepared to take a lot longer to reach your objectove whilst saving all that fuel.

Don't forget a jar of peanut butter. Great nutrition, great energy boost, and it sticks with you.

My first ocean transport (Lauderdale to Nova Scotia) I'd have to clean the flying fish off our decks every morning. Lots of them. They'd fly wave top to wave top 20, 30 + feet, and meet the side of our house in the dark.

You will do the same with one today as you would have done 50 yrs ago, point it at a heavenly body you can identify ,record the observed altitude and time and get to work with your sight reduction tables and nautical almanac several times a day, keep an accurate distance log and good DR's and your intercepts won't put you in the southern hemisphere ( not in the first few weeks anyway).

It has long been known that single handed sailing for more than a day or so is, necessarily, technically illegal. Rule 5 of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGS) specifically states that "Every vessel shall at all times maintain a proper look-out by sight and hearing," and this is simply impossible to do while sleeping.
http://cruisingoutpost.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1845

The EU does not control any of the waters in between the US west coast and Hawaii. So that doesn't really change much. If you have redundant collision detection systems the traffic out there isn't so great that it's an unreasonable risk to do it alone. Occasionally people even cross the whole way without ever seeing a boat anywhere but AIS or Radar until they get within day cruising range of the shore.