Relieved to read the responses. Sometimes on sailnet it seems like people spend too much time crushing dreams instead of encouraging the modern-day Slocums. Well, I mean, we should discourage the alleged pedophile stuff, but not the sailing!
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Sailing around the world on a Sunfish - non stop
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I remember not too long ago, I had a dream. In fact before I started the process of getting my boat, I had dreamed about sailing away for 20 years or more. I read and learned. I watched sailing movies with a great sense of ownership. I have been reading this site for over 5 years and have seen the people come on the board with the dream very much alive and well within them. We would all do well to remember the time we all had the fire. At one point we were all "peter" in the peter pan adventures. Or Bligh, Hook, Edward Teach with his beard a-blaze and twin black powder pistols. I for one don't leave the dock enough. I stay tied up. I check the lines and reset the fenders check the slapping halyards so the live-A- boards can get some rest at night. I check the bilge and the oil in the yanmar. I run the batteries and clean the bird-crap off the deck. Then I go below for an afternoon nap. I still dream of casting off and heading out in that long awaited offshore voyage to a no-name port. I remember being like the honest dreamers that come here looking to find like minded sailors to become part of, To be included with and to learn from. I remember how much I respected the men I met when I first started reading SN and learning the ropes. I tried my best not to look like some people that I now read coming in the first few weeks, asking all the questions we cutup about. I have no problem getting slapped around for being a noob, that being said. We should all do well to remember that place within each of us that make us who we are, Sailors. We are sailors the most of us. We are different than others. We don't think the same way as others think. We all have a bug-out-plan. We have boats. We have this kind of internal knowledge that we can leave when we dang well please, and that we are capable of sailing to places others dream of. We train ourselves handle the elements and to survive. I love the fact that dreamers are alive in well in the world and further more I am honored to be a part and slowly becoming "sailor enough to share me training with others. It makes me feel good to share. I will never forget being new. Thanks guys here on this site that played a part. I still admire you and your knowledge and spirit. I will sail again this weekend using much of what you taught me. Give the new guy's a chance they have virgin sea hearts.
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To my eye,
Heaven is in the sky
short of that,
Heaven is on the sea
short of that,
Heaven is on the shore
short of that,
Burial at sea
would be 'my way'
to say Good bye.
If anyone ever tries to say it better, I wish them luck. Here's to keeping dreams alive and well. And to making them a reality one day!I remember not too long ago, I had a dream. In fact before I started the process of getting my boat, I had dreamed about sailing away for 20 years or more. I read and learned. I watched sailing movies with a great sense of ownership. I have been reading this site for over 5 years and have seen the people come on the board with the dream very much alive and well within them. We would all do well to remember the time we all had the fire. At one point we were all "peter" in the peter pan adventures. Or Bligh, Hook, Edward Teach with his beard a-blaze and twin black powder pistols. I for one don't leave the dock enough. I stay tied up. I check the lines and reset the fenders check the slapping halyards so the live-A- boards can get some rest at night. I check the bilge and the oil in the yanmar. I run the batteries and clean the bird-crap off the deck. Then I go below for an afternoon nap. I still dream of casting off and heading out in that long awaited offshore voyage to a no-name port. I remember being like the honest dreamers that come here looking to find like minded sailors to become part of, To be included with and to learn from. I remember how much I respected the men I met when I first started reading SN and learning the ropes. I tried my best not to look like some people that I now read coming in the first few weeks, asking all the questions we cutup about. I have no problem getting slapped around for being a noob, that being said. We should all do well to remember that place within each of us that make us who we are, Sailors. We are sailors the most of us. We are different than others. We don't think the same way as others think. We all have a bug-out-plan. We have boats. We have this kind of internal knowledge that we can leave when we dang well please, and that we are capable of sailing to places others dream of. We train ourselves handle the elements and to survive. I love the fact that dreamers are alive in well in the world and further more I am honored to be a part and slowly becoming "sailor enough to share me training with others. It makes me feel good to share. I will never forget being new. Thanks guys here on this site that played a part. I still admire you and your knowledge and spirit. I will sail again this weekend using much of what you taught me. Give the new guy's a chance they have virgin sea hearts.
Code:To my eye, Heaven is in the sky short of that, Heaven is on the sea short of that, Heaven is on the shore short of that, Burial at sea would be 'my way' to say Good bye.![]()
Nope, sorry. Not a convincing enough BS impersonation, David.
Fair enough.Nope, sorry. Not a convincing enough BS impersonation, David.
How about this?
"It should be a wood Sunfish instead of a fiberglass Sunfish, since repair parts/skills can be more easily found world-wide (driftwood, etc)"
(There IS such a thing as a wooden Sunfish.. I used to sail on one in the early 70s)
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