What bothers me about online dating is shit like this anyway...romantic promises (life on the beach !)....I couldn't get a woman to hardly meet for coffee (But, but....I don't know you !). Yes let's just text forever until Mr. Right pops up on your profile page.....

I always got the feeling they wanted to fall in love, plan their futures and book their international romantic getaways before they'd consider a face to face to meeting.

Exaggeration, I know. But I don't need this bullshit. It's NOT that complicated.....You either like each other, you don't or you might. But there has to be a meeting 1st. 10 am/ 2 pm/ 7 pm in a coffee shop....Oh that's too hard.
Whatever.

(then there's the pictures of the ladies, partying and wining and dining....all I can say is, don't bitch about the fish pictures girls!!)

I'm in a great mood this morning in case you couldn't tell. I DO NOT want to return to dating hell

No

Wise observations!

Nope

I had a day-sailor when I lived in Virginia, I enjoyed sailing it around Chesapeake Bay. I would not want to take a sailboat around the world but would love to take a cruse ship. I have crossed the Atlantic 3 times in my life. The first time as a 2 y/o child. The ship passed by a hurricane but finally made it to NY harbor. I deployed to to the Mediterranean on a Navy ship as an adult.

I don't know anyone currently with whom I'd want to share a long sailboat cruise, but it could be lovely with the right combination of personalities if compatible. Not sure that person exists, but fun to dream about!

There is a YouTube channel called Salt & Tar that I follow...the couple starring are Ruth and Garrett...they have been together as a couple since HS and have owned 4 or 5 boats together. They decided that all the boats they had owned were lacking one thing or another so they decided to build their own boat so they would have everything they wanted and needed. They started from scratch and the two of them work together as a team...they are seamless. They have been at it for 5 years now and are almost finished to where they can leave out...the sails are being made and when they get them they will be off...Mexico for the winter is their first stop. If anyone is thinking of "sailing around the world"...I strongly urge you to watch these two and you will see a "gold standard" that very few are able to achieve. ...... Would I attempt it? Knowing what I know now...yes, but my partner would have to be exceptional. I don't see that happening but it's never a bad thing to dream.

Not to mention that what if you got a week into the voyage and realized you really don’t like the dude......

There is a lot of beauty on and in the sea. I did two cruises in the Navy, on the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Mostly avoiding sea lanes, I got to see a lot of different creatures, and constellations, even under the equator. So, no, I've no reason to go back out again.

When I was four, me and another kid built a raft out of a wooden pallet and a truck tire inner tube. We were going to explore a nearby storm drain, but got made to put in by a pair of cops.
It was at that age also, that I attempted to dig a hole all the way to China. I never did get there. But I dug a pretty big hole in the backyard. Had I been offered a chance to sail around the world, I'd have jumped at it. But nowadays, I'd rather make the trip in a yacht, or a cruise ship.
No sailboats for me!

No, thank you.

I had an aunt in law who tried to sail back from Hawaii as a honeymoon with her fourth husband (she was thrice widowed).

They found a storm and got pinned against Mexico's coast for two weeks. She got her first divorce less than a month later.

Some ideas sound clever until you think carefully about them -- let alone try them.
Ha, ha.