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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Vancouver/Philippines
Boat: T.B.A.
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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Asia - on Sea Life
Boat: Beneteau 393 "Sea Life"
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![]() Photos below of recent encounter. Look at how courageous Nic looks! sorry about pic quality.
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rusky, The enviornment is sadly changing. In the eastern Caribbean and the Bahamas, as a singlehandler sailing a Cabo Rico 38, it was not uncommon for someone to ask me what type of work experience I'd had before going cruising. A couple of times I was asked about my college education. This was from the "two year vacation" cruisier types from the east coast of the US. Those of us out cruising for personnal satisfaction didn't worry about such things. regards John |
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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: onboard in the Caribbean - mostly in Grenada
Boat: Gulfstar 53 - Osiris
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>>>The enviornment is sadly changing.<<< Oh! it is so true! After several years of being a regular at the Georgetown Regatta in the Bahamas - by some strange quirk of fate I was being talked to by the "insider's circle". Some days later I heard the "insider's circle" discussing setting up rules and regulations for cruiser behavior at the regatta. Now these are people who are not citizens of the Bahamas, they are visitors like you and me and they are going to publish rules? I upped anchor and left as quick as I could to never return. Slowly but surely as you say, things are changing. - - The old time swashbucklers, independents, and what I call the "local characters of cruising" are being overwhelmed by the masses of upper middle class "normal people" in their fancy cat's and home appliance loaded monohulls (with washing machines on board). What is the cruising world coming to? There are still plenty of "worldly cruisers" still around but they are feeling to pressures of "not having" the extra do-dad's and condo-comfort extra's and spit and polish yachts. - - And the real "characters" with their totally white "santa" beards, beat up sandals and rum-stained shirts are few and far between. I do notice lately that they seem to be heading for places like Guyana and Cumana. Maybe too many of us have been blabbing about what the life is like out here. Shush now, keep it quiet or we will be pushed totally out more hordes of yuppies on a two year sabbatical. |
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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: World Resident
Boat: Dolphin 460 Catamaran WONDERLAND
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![]() Just last year I was sailing my cat around with a rum stains all over my shirt! Scallywags sail all types of vessels, cats included.
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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Boat: Albin Ballad; 1978; 30'-00" "SVINT II"
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![]() Seems to me like the notion of "selected ones" does exist and is alive and thriving in the those areas that are more accessable to those folks who want to enjoy cruising from the comfort of their airconditioned sailboats. ![]() Believe me, I don't begrudge those who have "it", any of their share of the planet, I just find it kinda sad that the "local" ecconomies are being determined by wealth of the visitors, and, unbeknowst to them, they set the bar for all those who are yet to get there to also enjoy that part of paradise..... those who may not be in the same income bracket. By setting those certain requirements, through their indirect (or maybe direct) input, certain locations have become tourist spots for the affluent only..... and when the traditional cruiser makes an appearence, is made to feel uncomfortable, not by his experience, but by the type, or size of his boat and by the amount of money he/she is willing to part with.........
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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Asia - on Sea Life
Boat: Beneteau 393 "Sea Life"
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Well, all I can advise is for you to read my lats post: Quote:
The only cliques are the ones you impose in your own mind. I have never been with a more egalitarian mob than the bunch of crusiers I have met in our 18 months at sea. ![]() Mark
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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: onboard in the Caribbean - mostly in Grenada
Boat: Gulfstar 53 - Osiris
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- - Apologies if I offended anyone - I did not say that Cat owners are not nice or friendly - although you might be careful about advertising the washing machine, you might be inundated by scruffy monohull folks dropping bales of wash off on one of your pontoons. I even have a washer/dryer on my monohull and have done wash for folks on smaller vessels. - - I was just bemoaning the loss of the real "characters" that ply the seas with their converted "lifeboats", tri-marans, and old wooden schooners and barks. They are very colorful in a nostalgic way. All of this was prompted by a recent concert at the Horny Baboon here in Grenada put on by a couple off a "converted lifeboat" who have circumnavigated - gosh knows how many times. The group attending the concert would have made Jimmy Buffet jealous of his early "pirate" days in Key West. The music was good but he entertainment was in the collection of post-ancient mariners in attendance. "Us modern" folks are just too normal . . . |
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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: World Resident
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I've gone over to monohalls to exchange greetings and the couple onboard has told me that they can't open their hatches because their AC is running! Different types of people sail in all kinds of boats. Maybe a new thread could be started about why long-term cruisers nolonger visit the Virgin Islands due to the bare boat charter crowd. John A |
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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Salem MA
Boat: Cal 39 - D & D
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"wankers" - I love you down under people :-) don't know what this means but I bet most of my guesses would fit close enough |
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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: W Florida
Boat: 16ft Jon, 15hp Honda - Gemini 105Mc #1044
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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Lake Tabourie Australia
Boat: SouthCoast 36 Crazy Lady
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| Moderator ![]() Moderator Join Date: May 2007 Location: Singapore
Boat: Maxi 77 - Relax Lah!
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She manages to double my budget all the time...
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| Registered User ![]() Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Stavanger, Norway
Boat: Last boat was a Catalac 9m Hi-Jude
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![]() I have the same attitude, very happy for anyone to go cruising with my (ex) wife.
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