Brilliant!


"Capt. Neal®" wrote in message
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1. Did you sail more in the first five years or in the last five
years?

I've sailed more in the last five years. The older I get the more I
like sailing and living aboard. It's a good life and one worth working
towards.


2. If the answer to number 1. is the last five years, were you retired
during that time?

Yes, I've been retired since 2001. Worked hard and retired early with
enough cash reserves to sail in comfort and style until I'm as old and
cranky as Ole Thom.(But, I'll never be as ugly!)


3. Have you owned multiple boats and has each one been larger and more
expensive than the one before it?

Negative - I've owned one boat - ONE PERFECT BOAT! No need to own
anything else.


4. As you moved up in boat size did that also correspond with moving
up professionally with more stress, responsibility and time
constraints?

Only fools move up in boat size. An intelligent man decides which size
boat is perfect for him and sticks with it. It is a fact that it takes
a lifetime to learn how to sail any one boat to perfection. People like
Bobsprit who jump from boat to boat without ever learning how to sail a
single one of them are in no sense of the word sailors.

As for professionalism, any sailor who does not take and pass the exams
and obtain a Captain's license from the USCG exam centers is no sailor.
Or, if in Europe, some of the Yacht Master programs are adequate.


5. If the answer to 4. is yes did you sail less with each new boat
after the intial purchase year?

Does not apply.


6. Did you raise kids and during the time that they had conflicting
interests and activities, did that contribute to less sailing.

Kids are for women and fools. Sailors have as little to do with kids as
possible!


7. Did a high percentage of your closest sailing friends and
acquaintences at the start of your sailing carreer at some point move
from sail to power or off the water altogether?

Most, if not all, lost interest in sailing because they never owned a
decent boat or stuck with any boat long enough to sail it to perfection
or discover and correct its shortcomings. People like DSK who've "gone
trawler" are losers who never understood the beauty of sail in the
first place and did not have the wit to understand it even after
pursuing it for years.


8. Even when you owned boats did you do bareboat charters on a regular
basis.

What! and grovel in somebody else's germs and filth while constrained
to floating homes that are ugly and worn out?


9. Did you race (either your own boat or crewed on others) when you
were young and do you still race.

I raced boards when younger but found out most people who race are
losers and decided to no longer associate with that crowd of egomaniacs
who have more money than sense.


I hope this helps.

Respectfully,
Capt. Neal
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