If I had started this 20 years ago, I might say what's the rush? Now though, I might only have 10 years of cruising left in me. 'Course my father sailed (single handed, too) well into his 80s, you never know. So its triage: A year spent in Newfoundland necessarily means a year not spent somewhere else. I have been fortunate enough to experience a lot of the World in small samples, didn't think it was a bad thing. My personality is better suited to seeing a little of a lot, rather than a lot of a little.