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01-02-2011, 15:01
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#106
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Toronto, Canada on Lake Ontario
Boat: Roberts Offshore 38
Posts: 1,287
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I'll go with peace. No matter how messed up my life is at times, or how miserable I feel at times, all I have to do is go down to the dock, climb aboard and everything goes away for a while. I don't even have to leave the dock. I can sit in the cockpit for hours, with nothing more than the passing clouds as entertainment.
Freedom comes later, after I get Sabre Dance sorted out, and tell my employer where to shove it. Soon.
Sabre
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01-02-2011, 15:09
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#107
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Obsfucator, Second Class
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Southeast USA.
Boat: 1982 Sea Ray SRV360
Posts: 1,745
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Contentment
Quote:
Originally Posted by SabreKai
I'll go with peace. No matter how messed up my life is at times, or how miserable I feel at times, all I have to do is go down to the dock, climb aboard and everything goes away for a while. I don't even have to leave the dock. I can sit in the cockpit for hours, with nothing more than the passing clouds as entertainment.
Freedom comes later, after I get Sabre Dance sorted out, and tell my employer where to shove it. Soon.
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I have the same feeling when I go to my boat. I would use the word "contentment", myself, but how you describe it is just how I feel.
Many a weekend I just go sit on the boat at the dock and watch the people, boats, porpoises, otters, birds, clouds, ripples, and the occasional Air Force fighter or transport thunder over.
This past weekend, after snow storm and a coupla weeks hovering around freezing, it turned warm and at the dock it was 70 degrees.
I just sat there basking in contentment.
-dan
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01-02-2011, 15:28
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#109
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Florida.... soon on a boat
Boat: looking build or buy a boat to escape from the rat race..
Posts: 41
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Quote:
Originally Posted by James S
freedom
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You're right James, but the word that I would use is "Elevtheria" which means freedom in Greek. I was thinking about naming my boat that when I build it.
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01-02-2011, 15:56
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#110
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Nyack, NY
Boat: Westsail 32
Posts: 1,694
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Nirvana
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01-02-2011, 19:54
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#111
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Erie Canal between Rochester & Buffalo
Boat: 1970 23' O'day pop-top
Posts: 471
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cburger
Nirvana
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02-02-2011, 09:46
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#112
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 774
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Sea
It was not the reflection of the sunset in her eyes falling from the sky resting upon the sea, the mirror to her soul:
It was not her scent that rested in the trees, a mist embracing, caressing,dancing slowly through my mind:
It was not her smile that drifted silently across my spirit, a gentle breeze, soaring, carrying me aloft:
It was the sound of her soul, washing over me, a hushed whisper, trickling drop by drop, a gentle surf upon my beach
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02-02-2011, 12:48
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#113
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Toronto, Canada on Lake Ontario
Boat: Roberts Offshore 38
Posts: 1,287
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dacust
This past weekend, after snow storm and a coupla weeks hovering around freezing, it turned warm and at the dock it was 70 degrees.
I just sat there basking in contentment.
-dan
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Lucky bugger!  My boat is buried under a foot of snow, surrounded by drifts a couple of feet high. Aside from going down every once in a while to check the cover, there's nothing I can do til at least mid March.
Sabre
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02-02-2011, 12:49
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#114
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Toronto, Canada on Lake Ontario
Boat: Roberts Offshore 38
Posts: 1,287
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Quote:
Originally Posted by boatman61
Buga... I stubbed mah toe...
Buga... I cut myself...
Buga... The engine won't start...
Buga... The brightwork needs doing...
Buga... The Genny needs restitching...
Buga... I'm outa gas...
Bugarit I'm goin sailing....
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02-02-2011, 13:06
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#115
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Kansas City, MO
Boat: In the hunt again, unknown
Posts: 1,331
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LIVING!
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02-02-2011, 16:38
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#116
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: East Bergholt, Suffolk, UK
Boat: Seal 22, 22 feet LOA
Posts: 49
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Excitement
The excitement of getting the boat ship shape,
The excitement of planning the voyage,
The excitement of casting off,
The excitement of what the weather brings,
The excitement of making my landfall,
The excitement of thinking about that first beer on arrival,
Pagan
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The Truth Is Out There - You Only Have To Ask! The More I learn - The More I realise How Little I know! NEMO MORTALIUM OMNIBUS HORIS SAPIT
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03-02-2011, 06:05
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#117
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Eastern Ont.
Boat: 1970 Hughes 29
Posts: 74
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One word
[QUOTE=SabreKai;610454]Lucky bugger! My boat is buried under a foot of snow, surrounded by drifts a couple of feet high. Aside from going down every once in a while to check the cover, there's nothing I can do til at least mid March.
I am in the same position. When my shop isn't to cold, i go out and work
on my solid oak chain locker which will be mounted on the fore deck since
there is no room below. I feel like i'm connected to her at least. She is an
hour and a half away, not easy to go visit in winter, i think i'm falling in
love. So i will use the word (love) for this thread.
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05-02-2011, 23:04
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#118
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Trunk (boot) of my car
Boat: Tinker Traveller...a dozen feet of bluewater awesomeness!
Posts: 1,230
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Windy.
Otherwise you'd be motoring.
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06-02-2011, 01:11
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#119
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Honolulu, HI
Boat: Baba 35
Posts: 192
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Touchstone
It sets the standard of all that is wonderful.
Yet, at the same time, instantly highlights the banality of everything else.
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11-02-2011, 08:25
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#120
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: San Francisco
Boat: O'Day 37 Center Cockpit "Namaste"
Posts: 85
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Bliss
And all of what's said before. A day on a boat beats a year a work.
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