Description: Sailing Vessel Horizon
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(Click for old site) In 1997 I started this site on returning from a 5-year cruise from San Francisco to Tampa and while busily writing WXTide32 , our free world-wide tides program. Time passed, then in 2010 after 24 years of ownership, that Rafiki 35 named Horizon was sold. Shortly after that Cate and I bought this Morgan 415, made it our new home and began her refit. By this time svHorizon had become an integral part of life so it was an easy decision to change our new boat's name from Enchanter/Capriciou
Our criteria for estimating cruising expenses are rather specific. We expect to be on our own anchor most all of the time which greatly reduces, but does not totally eliminate, outlays for dock fees and moorage - we will still have to put in once in a while and we hear that dinghy dock fees can be quite high. With so much new gear we hope that there should be a few years with less major breakage of things that we will find critical and anything that does break will hopefully be fixable using on board spare