Sailing is not really all wine and roses. But I am not one to complain. The minute I made the decision to do this, I knew it is not the "sailing-into-the-sunset" romantic notion that one envisions. For starters, I stand pat with whatever I have decided, and take responsibility for whatever comes my way. Some choose to complain on everything and find all the negatives of each place visited. What for? I don't undertand it at all. It is like you are doomed to be miserable your whole life. In this article, I will lay out some of the "negatives" if you want to choose that word, but for me, I will call them experiences, part and parcel of sailing.

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