In article .com,
wrote:

I guess I have to admit it, I am a failure at cruising. With my son, I
did manage to get from Carabelle in N. FL to Sarasota in three seperate
trips in which I left the boat in marinas for a month between trips.

Heck, you hardly have gotten started! As with anything, practice,
practice, practice!

Used to be that I'd be thinking about work the whole trip, up to a
couple of weeks. After a decade or two of mostly weekend trips, work
disappears as we leave the dock, sometimes on the car ride.

Others like the immersion technique, months at a time. We haven't had
the luxury.

You will kick yourself if you don't do what you can when you can. (cf
the Twain quote elsewhere in the thread.)

--
Jere Lull
Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD)
Xan's Pages: http://members.dca.net/jerelull/X-Main.html
Our BVI FAQs (290+ pics) http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/

I don't s'pose I really need to point out the logical fallacy in the
Twain quote. Twain was a great writer but might've failed logic 101.

Jere Lull wrote:
In article .com,
wrote:

I guess I have to admit it, I am a failure at cruising. With my
son, I
did manage to get from Carabelle in N. FL to Sarasota in three
seperate
trips in which I left the boat in marinas for a month between
trips.

Heck, you hardly have gotten started! As with anything, practice,
practice, practice!

Used to be that I'd be thinking about work the whole trip, up to a
couple of weeks. After a decade or two of mostly weekend trips, work
disappears as we leave the dock, sometimes on the car ride.

Others like the immersion technique, months at a time. We haven't had

the luxury.

You will kick yourself if you don't do what you can when you can. (cf

the Twain quote elsewhere in the thread.)

--
Jere Lull
Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD)
Xan's Pages: http://members.dca.net/jerelull/X-Main.html
Our BVI FAQs (290+ pics) http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/

On 2 Apr 2005 08:48:52 -0800, wrote:

Every time I was on the boat for a day or so, my mind would begin to
race with things I want to try at work I invent weird x-ray optics for
a living) so I was unable to relax to enjoy the cruise.

You make it sound like a bad thing. Do you ever get ideas in the shower? Have
you stopped showering because you get ideas there?

I'm a consulting engineer/inventor too. I consider the new ideas I get while
sailing/driving/showering/whatever a bonus, not a detriment. The only thing
that can reduce my relaxation is the concern that I might forget an idea, so I
always carry a PDA or notepad so I can quickly write/draw/record new ideas, then
get back to whatever else I'm doing. Maybe one of the ideas you get while
sailing will pay off so you can get a better boat and/or do even more sailing
someday.

--
Chuck Cox - SynchroSystems
, , www.synchro.com
(my email address is politician-proof, just remove the PORK)

On 2 Apr 2005 20:22:47 -0800, wrote:

I am sure that some people manage to do work that they love and
cruise at the same time but for most of us it is more difficult.

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I have done a lot of cruising over 35 years or so, most of it in 2 or
3 week stretches as vacations permitted. That's about to change as I
get close to retirement but I have generally found that I am plenty
busy enough just keeping up with boat chores and maintenance.

Unless you settle down in one place and become a "liveaboard" as
opposed to a "cruiser", I can't personally imagine having enough time
to actually earn a living. Pocket change maybe, but serious "make a
living" money seems unlikely to me. Even with highly marketable
skills, you usually need to establish a reputation for competence and
reliability which is hard to do if you are constantly on the go, and
taking care of your own boat at the same time.

wrote:

For full time cruisers, I have to ask; are you passionate about it?
Do you ever think that you are wasting time that you could be using
to
do something special? How do you justify your existence considering
that cruising is mostly about self gratification. My questions are
not
directed at retirees who have made their contribution to society but
to
younger cruisers. Is there some way in which you feel that your
lifestyle is of benefit to others? Are these questions the result of
to much tequila?

My wife and I took a year and a half off in our thirties to go
cruising. It never crossed my mind that I was wasting time. When you
consider that probably the majority of what people produce in their
jobs is basically just fleeting entertainment for others, and not true
necessities, dropping out to go cruising doesn't seem like such a
waste. Who is "contributing" more to the world: the cruiser who is
experiencing an adventure and really enjoying life, or the person who
grinds away in a cubicle coding a video game that will be completely
forgotten 3 years from now?

Andy