As I understand it, the trickiest parts of any voyage are those around land - reefs and shoals, and all of that. Once you are well away, your priorities change and you can relax to some degree. Coastal voyages aren't trivial and there are shipwrecks aplenty to prove it.
Someone once said
"It isn't so much the ocean that is dangerous...rather it's all the hard bits around the edges!" 
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