Cruise till you die? - Page 4

PBzeer · #31 (**permalink**) 05-01-2008

Since I haven't had a mid-life crisis yet, does that mean I have at least 58 more years left?

chucklesR · #32 (**permalink**) 05-01-2008

Nah PB, just means you are as slow in getting old as you were in growing up.

TrueBlue · #33 (**permalink**) 05-01-2008

If buying a cruising sailboat, casting off solo and casting away all land ties is NOT a mid-life crisis ( life-changing action as denial of old-age ), then what is?

erps · #34 (**permalink**) 05-01-2008

It must have broke by the time I tried it. Say's my real age is in the thirties, but my wife (who has known me for 30+ years) says it should be closer to a 5 year old. Is that good?

TThomsen · #35 (**permalink**) 05-01-2008

So it says that my real age is 14 years yunger that I am and that I will live for another 40+ years. Any fire sales out there on a good used boat that you don't think that you will be using much longer?

PBzeer · #36 (**permalink**) 05-01-2008

Well TB, since it's a long held dream, I was already solo, and I didn't revive or establish any new ties when I moved back to Indiana to take care of my Mom, it isn't really life-changing. And far from denying my age, I wish I was 3 years older so I could collect SS.

sgkuhner · #37 (**permalink**) 05-01-2008

I just posted this on the thread "How Old Are You?" but it is probably better posted here.

Speaking of age and getting older and cruising until you die, last year we had to deal with putting my wife's father into a nursing home during his last days. After that ordeal, my wife turned to our son, Alex, and said, "Don't worry Alex, when we get to be that age, your father and I will just get on Tamure, sail out to the middle of the ocean and pull the plug!"

Alex looked at her and said, "Wait! I have a better idea: why don't I just sail you our there and drop you off!" No sense in waisting a good cruising boat.

buckeyesailor · #38 (**permalink**) 05-01-2008

I'm with you Pollard.......I can't afford to live that long!!!!!!

89.7

richardfrance · #39 (**permalink**) 05-01-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by eherlihy

Actually, all of us are dying. It's only a matter of time. (No one gets out of here alive)

Careful with that gerund, Eugene.
We are not dying, just as we are not being born. Each is a process -taking minutes or hours.
Living is what we are in the process of doing - it takes a lot longer and it's a lot harder.
And if you can do a bit of messing about in boats between the first and the last - it's a lot more fun.

JiffyLube · #40 (**permalink**) 05-01-2008

The best I could do was 85.5.