You and I think alike in many ways. We may differ as to which is the
proper hull material for a small blue water yacht but we definitely
have our priorities straight in that we choose to live aboard rather
than ashore. We choose freedom over servitude, challenge over
sloth, variety over hum-drum, simplicity over complication, being in
control over being controlled and Mother Nature over works of man.

Ours is the life of a nomad, a warrior, a man in harmony who is not
afraid to face a variety of challenges and to control our own destiny
while employing any number of learned and innate skills to keep our
home and conveyance operational and reliable so that, by the work
of our own hands we trust our very lives. We are men and proud men
at that.

Would that there were more such men here and in the world to keep
it from being the mean and tawdry place it has become of late.

Hope to see you, your stout ship and fine crew on the high seas one of
these days.

Respectfully,
Capt. Neal



"Joe" penned the following perceptive words:

Indeed to suffer a sailing (season) less 6+ mo a years, and to have to
wrap your boat is down right lubbery. To own a boat that is not capable
of living aboard... and not living aboard... put you in the class of the
weekend warriors. And to not have the seatime or ambition to sit for a
Capt. ticket shows no ambition or savy of the way of the sea.....and
again is lubbery. How they can sleep at night without being rocked to
bed is beyond me. Anyone who spends more time ashore than afloat is
lubbery IMHO.

Joe