A QUOTE FROM STERLING HAYDEN'S BOOK, WANDERER

To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm
foundation of financial unrest.


O baloney.
C'mon Bart, would you set of an a major cruise with a guy who said "We
have to leave tonight, whatever the tide or weather, I am fleeing the
sheriffs"? Would you sail with a skipper who said "I couldn't afford
to outfit the boat properly so I skipped many things and bought cheap
junk for the rest"??

I wouldn't and I doubt you would either.



...... Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the
wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in.

Sounds romantic, but one should beware the spoiled child (whatever his
age may be) who tries to make a virtue out of being selfish & short-
sighted; and demanding that everybody around him pay the price of his
indulgences.




What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day,

Less.
Water is more important.

heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working
activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in
the material sense, and we know it.

There is also such a thing as providing security for your family.


But we are brainwashed by our
economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time
payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our
attention for the sheer idiocy of the charade.


Yep
Easy to avoid though. It's called "do the math" and at one time was
fairly popular.


Wilbur Hubbard" wrote:
..... Ask yourself do you
have time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry and playthings that
divert your attention for the sheer idiocy of the charade? If anybody
but myself answers negative on all the above then he is a liar.

Don't hurt your arm patting yourself on the back.


I'm
willing to wager that I am the only asa subscriber who has and never has
had time payments, has and never has had a mortgage in his entire life.

??
So? Bragging that you *never* use credit is every bit as stupid and
bragging that you *always* use credit. Time payments, mortgages, all
forms of credit, are a financial tool that can be used sensibly.

Would you respect a man who proclaimed himself an expert mechanic,
then scornfully said "I *never* use a ratchet drive, that is for wimps
& fools."


Unlike ALL you people, I have never been, am not now, and never shall be
a slave to the economic system.

Unless you have a very odd definition, very few other ASA'ers are
"slaves to the economic system."


.... Sterling Hayden sold his book to wannabes who would never
be an they knew it full well.

Sterling Hayden's book 'Wanderer' is an attempt to spin a romantic
adventure out of his fleeing the law & financial troubles that he
brought on himself. The early parts where he talks about the great
schooner races are the best & most honest parts of the book.

A great experience, but thirty years later he had learned nothing
further about sailing & proclaimed that he had nothing more to learn.
An example I prefer to not follow, although I envy his early
experiences.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King