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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Sat Nov 03 2001 - 16:49:43 EST
In a message dated 11/1/01 11:40:21 AM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:
> feel free to tell me all your own personal histories I deserve what ever
> you send my way. I know a stronger man would have gone to divorce court
> before selling Evening Star. I guess I still love her smile...
The best boat to have is the one that does what you want it to do.
If you want to be out on the water with the smile that makes life worth
living then concentrate all your efforts on finding that vessel that will
make you both smile. You may have to find a middle ground between the Queen
Mary and Cutty Sark.
There is no reason why you cannot combine adventure and comfort. Jan and I
live aboard Bandersnatch full time and voyage at will from Key West to Nova
Scotia. We don't tie up to docks. We make our own electricity and water. We
have a laundry room with a washer that can do seven queen size sheets using
16 gallons of water. We have our own computers and do email every day by
cell phone. We have hot showers at will. We have reverse cycle AC when we
want it (but we prefer to adjust our latitude instead). We have a guest
room, and a microwave we can bake bread in. Soon we will be making ice cubes
from seawater and sunshine. We are sometimes a hundred miles offshore (on
our way from Nantucket to Canada), sometimes immersed in the excitement of a
wonderful city (today we are enjoying Norfolk), sometimes in the heart of an
unspoiled forest such as the primeval Waccamaw River, our favorite place on
the ICW. We live an incredible life aboard a concrete boat I built in my
back yard.
Many of our best adventures happen in our "full powered" dinghy (10' Caribe
with 30 HP Johnson). Like my friend Captain Ron likes to say: "Norm, you
gotta understand the concept. The purpose of the big boat is to carry around
the little boat."
Anyone can do it. It happens all the time. All it takes is wanting to do it
more than wanting to do anything else.
"Pursue your dreams with determination and you will meet with a success
undreamed of in common hours."
Norm
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