There Are More Ways Than One to Traverse the Ocean

Although the flight from DC to Sydney was a bit circuitous, I must admit that it was drier and much much faster than a sail would have been. There are other differences as well between Business class travel as a passenger and mate-class travel as crew:
1. When sleeping in the bow, one can anticipate being airborne on occasion at sea, but one can only hope that one remains airborne in flight.
2. When flying Business class, one can anticipate being served hot nuts. When sailing one can anticipate someone on board driving you nuts.
3. When flying Business class, one never has to worry about being awakened by the captain to stand watch. When sailing, someone always wakes you to take the helm.

Much more to come. Feel free to write your own comparisons. But no matter the downsides, I'm playing the Boat Ho card here and am hot on the trail of a delivery of a race boat from Queensland to Sydney.

For now, I'm in Sydney and loving it, sail or no sail.