boat about 900 miles from inside the Sea of Cortez to San Diego and I can add my two cents that some single handers are much more cautious then others. There were a couple of times when I would have just beat my way on through when he turned around and went back to the anchorage. I sail with an EPIRB, AIS, life raft, radar, Chart plotter, SSB and all the safety equipment I can get my hands on and he, well, he doesn't. No life raft, a hard dink that wouldn't stay afloat in heavy seas for two minutes, and on and on. I brought my owe "Spot" just to have some kind of emergence notification. I felt "at risk" almost the entire trip but of course he was fine. I had to keep telling myself that the boat was in good shape, we were both experienced sailors and it was me just leaving my over protected bubble I had built for myself over the years. I was sailing just like I had done 30 years ago and I had got along just fine back then. My friend has spent the last 6 years single handing all around the Sea and mainland Mexico and has developed the safety rules and rituals that has kept him alive so it's, I suppose, hard to argue with success. Next week I'm helping another friend deliver a boat from Puerto Rico to Fort Lauderdale and this friend is like minded. Plenty of safety equipment on board and pretty much my same mind set. It will be a slow 7 or 8 week delivery so I expect much more peace of mind on this trip and better weather to boot. I spent the entire trip up the Baja in foul weather gear. This one should be in shorts.