In article , CaveLamb wrote:
Wilbur Hubbard wrote:


Uh, Justin, by your very own admission you are following pretenders who
aren't living the dream because living the dream involves other than
Internet connectivity and posting to newsgroups. If you follow in Skippy's
footsteps you will never be a real sailor. I suggest you find a couple of
real sailors to look up to. You are being led astray by wanabee's.

They are following their dream, Wilbur.
Not yours.

I didn't see Wilbur's post, he's in my kill-file.

Wilbur is mistaken if he thinks I'm looking up to Skip. What I said is
that Skip is reminding us what it is we want to be doing. Sailors I look
up to are Sir Robin Knox-Johnson (he is taller than me), Dame Ellen
MacArthur (metaphorically because she's very short), and Jester
Challenge entrants, among others.

I don't mean to diminish what Skip is doing, I just don't think that
what he's doing makes him role-model material, just like I won't be when
I'm cruising. It's nothing exceptional, having done the exceptional may
make someone rold-model material.

Justin.

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Justin C, by the sea.