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I love to sail. I also love to do other activities. What are the other things you are passionate about? Or maybe sailing is not your primary passion.
Photos a plus.
I'll start.
My wife and I also enjoy...
Mountain biking
Scuba diving
Skiing
Hiking/snow shoeing
Former passions:
Auto racing(road)
British auto restoration(not easy to do living on a boat)
Wood working(all boat related now)
Home restoration
Windsurfing(still do occasionally but not passionate)
I only have one obsession at a time and this year it will be sailing.
I have hung up for this new obsession:
Music (only gig every 2 months for the Summer this year)
Hot Rods (Last toy I built I lost my shirt...LOL)
Bikes (Motorcycles - Wasn't riding much anymore)
Fishing (I will sell the center console this year)
I think that is about it...I have a short attention span so we will see how the sailing thing goes.
Martial arts
Motorcycling - Street & vintage motocross.
Yoga - helps keep me able to do the two above - LOL
Fixing up my old house.
Fixing up old cars.
Ha! That was my first thought. Who has time for other "passions"? Oh yeah, people with newer boats than mine!
I don't really have time for much of anything else. In the summer time I'm sailing, and doing boat projects, either maintenance, repairs or upgrades. In the winter, I bring projects home. I like to do my own splicing (all types of line) and this year I'm starting to mess around with sailmaking/modifying (re-cutting the dinghy sail).
I'm also a big fan of college football and Ohio State in particular. In the fall, most Saturdays are occupied with watching games. I try to make it out to Columbus catch a game in person every couple of years or so. It's not so much of an activity, but if you don't think it's a passion, come watch a game with me, especially if a ref blows a call! :hothead
In the past I was in to aviation. Like a lot of sailors I meet, I got my private pilots license and had some hours toward an instrument rating. I have about 150 hours total, mostly in Piper's, but haven't flown since the weekend before 9/11. They shut down the airspace system and I decided that would be a good time to take a break from flying for a while and in the mean time, a friend invited me along as crew in some round the cans racing on Lake Erie. I don't think I have to explain how the rest of the story goes, I'm sure it's a common theme.
Academically I enjoy learning about new topics in optical physics and imaging. That's my line of work and enjoy it quite a bit. I also like reading non-fiction about history, medieval Europe and military history in particular. I really enjoy reading naval fiction from the age of sail. I've read the Hornblower series by Forrester and I just finished "The Nutmeg of Consolation" by O'brien.
I love cruising, well with a boat too but I mean cruising with this one:
I mean away from highways and big cities, preferably on twisting mountain roads. I enjoy cultural tourism and that is related with cruising and photography.
I like diversity and different cultures.
I like food, wine and bear not only as a gourmet but also as a cultural expression.
I like reading, I like music.
I like boats, all kind of boats if well designed.
I like family meetings ...a lot. We are tight:
I like swimming.
Former passions (age put a stop to some, others are in hold):
Sports:
Volleyball (at top level), Basketball, Handball, Football.
Motorcycle racing (raid)
motorcycle touring (road and across mountains of road)
Airplane acrobatics
Surf with a kayak
spearfishing
carreiros
Baseball
My son (high school senior baseball player)
Reading anything on sailing
Did I say baseball
I think perfect spring vacation would be sailing around Florida to attend as many spring training games as possible.:batter
I'm married, I'm not allowed to have other 'passions"! But IF I did; Girls! I use to be up for about anything, Diving, riding the motorcycle, bike (road&Mt), but age and doing that other stuff, has put a stop to most of it.
When I moved here (mountains of western Virginia) I was told there are three things to do - go to church, hunt/fish, and play music. My wife and I play old time string band music (mainly banjo and fiddle) and we are glad to be retired and able to get back into sailing on the Chesapeake. Also glad to have banjos and fiddles on board.
Twenty years ago, by far my main interest was sailing ( lived aboard a Hunter 30 in Marathon Florida). Thought I could limit my shooting sports interest while sailing around Florida and the Bahamas to just 2 guns, but just couldn't do it. Soon, I had 3, then 4, then my gun population began to multiply again.
Now, I live in a house and my main interests, shooting, and hunting are in in the forefront.
My sailboat is trailerable and is docked in my back yard.
Another interest is photography, I finally gave up film and have digital cameras. The most difficult transition was selling my much loved 1950's era Crown Graphic 4"X5" sheetfilm camera.
Camping also rates right up there. No tents for me anymore, a slide-on truck camper is as close to roughing it as I want to get.
I still do a little archery and am thinking about bow deer hunting next fall in addition to my usual rifle hunting.
All this keeps my retirement from getting boring.
Yes, I will be at PW. I am involved with organizing the conferences. I captured that image with a AT65EQD and an SBIG camera, it is Andromeda (M31) along with M32 and M110. It is great to have dark skies here in NC.
Kayaking and biking(to try to keep physical fit).
Software engineering as a hobby(keeps me mentally sharp and always learning, I'm a systems engineer by trade).
Pen and paper roleplaying games(basically games like Dungeons and Dragons. This keeps me socially active).
The odd computer game now and then, though I do this a lot less than I did 10 years ago.
And in my down time at home reading books(fantasy and sci-fi), watching movies/tv shows and oddly enough working on boat projects.
I appreciate the envy (I will take it as a compliment). I have to pinch myself each day to believe I am this lucky. But after 45 years of working (and still fully employed), 42 years with the same women, and lots of trials along the way I feel I have earned the right to brag a little about what we have accomplished. We have whittled life down to what matters to us.
Anyway, here are the hoses;
I had to move them up off the ground after Irene did a number on our yard and patio.
I had to nearly start from scratch to put it all back together again. I am hoping all this work and effort will keep me young. At least that is my excuse!
Motorcycles - owned about a dozen or so and there's certainly another HD in my future
Hiking - although admittedly don't have a lot in common with the granola types I meet
Beer - duh.
Buffet.
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