Aw be adventurous... it's Sunday! It might unlock a "superpower" you didn't
know you had! :-)

I'm going up to make breakfast now.... thick cut slices of bacon from my
buddy's pigs [ he finished them off with last year's maple syrup, carrots,
milk and apples] I got a 150 lbs of home-grown pork in the freezer. I'll
also fry up some fresh eggs... fresh like I go out and collect them from the
chook coop. The lady up the road trades us fresh home baked bread for
eggs.... I'll slice some of that up and toast it.... does that ever go down
nice with homemade butter and the jams/jellies we made last month.

CM

"jlrogers" wrote in message
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Friend just brought breakfast...along with something he calls "desert
vision." Made from the local catus and some homegrown. From the look in
his eye, I may pass.

"Capt.Mooron" wrote in message
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31 degrees F, sunshine, no wind, clear..... fed the chickens and the
dogs, got the weekend newspaper.

CM

"jlrogers" wrote in message
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Just waiting for the pre-game shows and the games to start. 25 degrees
F, and windy, on the desert no less. Drinking coffee, smoking
cigarettes, but no flowers on the wall.

"Capt.Mooron" wrote in message
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Yup!.... morning coffee and nuthin' worth reading in the newspaper :-)

CM

"jlrogers" wrote in message
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Bored, are you?
"Capt.Mooron" wrote in message
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Ahem......

"Capt. Rob" wrote in message

We buy a boat for no practical
reason. Oh, we can defend the sailboat with many arguments. A person
or
family does need an outlet, a way to relax one's mind, to bring
friends
and family closer. But there are less expensive ways to do that than
owning a yacht.

I bought mine to live on... which I did for 9 years.

And that brings us back to beauty. Picture a sailboat
in your mind; a long slender crescent moon topped with an impossibly
large triangle of cloth, a floating pendulum of grace designed to
harness the power of the wind. It's quite an amazing thing really.
The
experience, as a boat heels over in that first gust of wind, sails
powering up, the dramatic effort as tons of hull balances and slices
through the water, is nothing less than orgasmic.

I hope this isn't an example of the writing skills used in your book.

Sailing isn't about speed. It isn't about comfort and sure as hell
isn't about how far you sail.

The hell you say..... what's it about then.. a dock condo in a mega
city? if it isn't about comfort why do you go on and on about bunks
and AC and.... well, point proven.

You could spend a lifetime sailing on a
small lake and never need anything more.

Bull****.... unless you're skeered of the big water.


Or you could sail across an
ocean. It's all the same as it all brings you back to that first
magic
moment.

Put down the crack pipe Bob....

The rest, all the rest are only details.
If you want to get there faster, buy a speedboat. If you don't like
the
heeling, buy a trawler.

How about just buying whatever you like.

The beauty of sailing is in the inefficiency of
it all in a world that forces us to be efficient, the impractically
in
a life that demands practicality.

Say what??!!! The efficency is movement without ependiture of
fuel.... try it sometime on your sailboat. Contary to what you
believe... the engine does not have to be on for the boat to move.

Trying to force practicality onto a
sailing vessel is like adding a trailer to a Jaguar E Type, or
adding a
hull and taking away the heeling and beauty of a sailboat.

That's just a dumb statement. You're envious that Jeff's Moby-Dock
has more real estate than your Dock-Condo

So...two all the aspiring dreamers out the Stay away from a boat
like Jeff's. It's an abomination. It's ugly plain and simple. Want
to
be practical? Buy a minivan, but don't tarnish a dream of sailing
with
a boat that looks and sails like one. Buy a sailboat that fits your
dream, that picture in your mind. It can be a Catalina 30 or a
Rhodes
19 or a lavish Sweden 39. The joys of a keelboat are boundless.
There
are SUV's that are faster than a Miata, but no one seeking a
sportscar
would trade that feeling for extra seats....except maybe Jeff.

"joys of a keelboat"???..... this coming from a fin keeler is nothing
short of hilarious.

I know , I know... you sat here and crafted this lure for Jeff. I
apologize.... there was just so little in the way of posts here that
I decided to reply.

CM