Blackbeard Cruise for older, relative newbies?

"ed" <candele@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Would older (late 50's) folks fit in with the crowd on a Blackbeard
Cruise?

Depends upon the list of passengers and how you adapt. How do you look
naked?


> Is it possible to sleep, for example?

Versus just passed out, for example?

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> Any other insights are appreciated.

It's a tribal experience.

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> TIA, Ed
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>

Doc.

Would older (late 50's) folks fit in with the crowd on a Blackbeard Cruise?
Is it possible to sleep, for example?

Any other insights are appreciated.

TIA, Ed

Do this instead www.catppalu.com Same company, but you can set your own
pace, etc.

"ed" <candele@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Would older (late 50's) folks fit in with the crowd on a Blackbeard
Cruise?
> Is it possible to sleep, for example?
>
> Any other insights are appreciated.
>
> TIA, Ed
>
>
>

On my two Blackbeard's trips, at least half the divers, including me,
have been in their 50s. They had no trouble fitting in, and I never
heard anyone of any age say they had trouble sleeping.

For other insights, Lee Bell, I think it was, last year posted a list of
tips for Blackbeard's that included things like bringing boat cushions
to sit on and lots of clothespins.

The challenges of Blackbeards have nothing to do with age, and
everything to do with how primitive you are willing to be for a week. If
you like camping and diving, you'll love Blackbeards.

g

ed wrote:

>Would older (late 50's) folks fit in with the crowd on a Blackbeard Cruise?
>Is it possible to sleep, for example?
>
>Any other insights are appreciated.
>
>TIA, Ed
>
>
>
>
>

> Would older (late 50's) folks fit in with the crowd on a Blackbeard
Cruise?
> Is it possible to sleep, for example?

> Any other insights are appreciated.

On each of my Blackbeard's trips, people ran the gambit of ages and
personalities, from the young to the not so young, from the newly certified
to the experienced, from the quiet and withdrawn to the boistrous and loud.
There was at least one bimbo on each trip, two on one of them. I met
somebody in your age range on my first Blackbeard's trip about 10 years ago.
We're still good friends not that I'm approaching your age group myself (56
next March).

If you're gregarious and enjoy being in the company of divers, have ever
been a tent campter or an overnight boater, you'll have a good time. You
won't have a problem sleeping, but you may be uncomfortable with the lack of
privacy available in most of the accomodations. There are a couple of
cabins just forward of the mast that, if you have another couple to go with,
might be best. Otherwise, you're likely to wind up with a bunk in the salon
with only a curtain between you and the other 5 bunks in the salon.

If you want a cabin of your own, look someplace else.

"ed" <candele@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<bktd1l$8j8$1@news.chatlink.com>...
> Would older (late 50's) folks fit in with the crowd on a Blackbeard Cruise?
> Is it possible to sleep, for example?
>
> Any other insights are appreciated.

A set of ear plugs from wal-mart makes sleeping much nicer.
it's a cheap investment up front, and you'll wish you had
them when you get there.

You don't get awoken from boat noises or people noises.

take a small flashlight to keep in your bunk so you
can move around at night when they turn the lights off.
like to go to the bathroom, etc.

>
> TIA, Ed

gcathcar@nospamaccmail.umd.edu stopped playing nethack just long enough to say:
>
>The challenges of Blackbeards have nothing to do with age, and
>everything to do with how primitive you are willing to be for a week. If
>you like camping and diving, you'll love Blackbeards.

I love camping (and most especially primitive camping), and I love
diving, but I don't like "camping and diving". I don't carry my SCUBA
gear with me when I go camping, and likewise when I go diving, I want a
real bed to sleep in at the end of the day.

YMMV.

-JimG

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<Jim.Greenlee@cc.gatech.edu> wrote in message
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> gcathcar@nospamaccmail.umd.edu stopped playing nethack just long enough to
say:

> I love camping (and most especially primitive camping), and I love
> diving, but I don't like "camping and diving". I don't carry my SCUBA
> gear with me when I go camping, and likewise when I go diving, I want a
> real bed to sleep in at the end of the day.

I've always associated diving with boats, except for shore diving of course.
Boats have bunks, unless you're on a luxury liveaboard which we simply don't
have off Southern California. Therefore, I associate diving with bunks. It
doesn't really matter much to me by the end of the day since I'm tired from
diving and the rocking boat lulls you to sleep. And most of the bunk
mattresses are as comfortable as a "real bed" in, say, Cozumel. I just hate
bunks that have ceilings two inches from my nose so I feel like I'm in a
coffin buried alive.

<Jim.Greenlee@cc.gatech.edu> wrote in message
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> gcathcar@nospamaccmail.umd.edu stopped playing nethack just long enough to
say:
> >
> >The challenges of Blackbeards have nothing to do with age, and
> >everything to do with how primitive you are willing to be for a week. If
> >you like camping and diving, you'll love Blackbeards.
>
> I love camping (and most especially primitive camping),


"primitive camping"? That would be 3rd wheelin' behind the Airstream with
the Grand Cherokee rather than the Range Rover...right?

<Jim.Greenlee@cc.gatech.edu> wrote in message
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> nosp@m.com stopped playing nethack just long enough to say:
> >
> >"primitive camping"? That would be 3rd wheelin' behind the Airstream with
> >the Grand Cherokee rather than the Range Rover...right?
>
> Maybe in "Jatniel's World".

AHA HA HA haha...... unfortunately it doesn't surpass "primitive camping".
But I'm sure you thought you have it dicked when you hit the send button.

What's next, "strenuous lounging"?