CLODs

[sailorboy1]

In case you don't know CLOD = cruiser living on dirt

I have been active here and other sailing forums for a while now. Reading them has become a habit over the years. But now that I am boatless and out of boating, with a dirt house due to be closed on next month, it feels like being a pretender to post about boating stuff.

I wonder, how many here are CLODs? Or am I alone?

[Jammer]

Best wishes for your transitions.


I imagine that I will find your posts more insightful than those from many boat owners, even though you have sold your boat.

[wholybee]

I am not boatless, but not cruising anymore. I plan to get out there again, just refiling the bank account.

[hpeer]

Well I am a half CLOD. Half year on boat, half on land.

[rslifkin]

No longer having a boat doesn't negate the knowledge and experiences you gathered during your boating career or make that information any less useful to others.

[keepondancin]

I joined that club 3 years ago @ 73 the Genoa was too heavy to throw over my shoulder, the batteries just keep getting heavier and single hand in a 42’ boat was just a little more than I wanted to deal with. I keep reading and snickering to myself, about the dreamers and the doers, the clueless and the experienced. I also marvel how cruising went from smaller boats to having to have a 50’ catamaran. I certainly enjoyed my 10 years in the Caribbean, and I did it at at age 42, because as life goes, unpredictable things happen. My
Late wife said “when I’m in the rocking chair, I want to say remember when, not I wish I had.” She didn’t make it to the rocking chair, but we sure did enjoy the cruising. I continue reading these forums, I miss cruising but I sure don’t miss sanding and bottom painting, and wondering what’s going to need fixing next.

[boatman61]

Been a CLOD for 4yrs now.. not even the odd delivery to float on.. but as you say the forum is hard to quit.
While my boating input grows less relevant as boats get bigger and pricier every year I now focus on pissing folk off instead..

[Jim Cate]

I now focus on pissing folk off instead.

Phil, why not start up a master class in your speciality? SB1 could be a guest lecturer...

Good luck on shore to both of you.

Jim (just hanging in there on board)

[sailorboy1]

Originally Posted by boatman61

While my boating input grows less relevant as boats get bigger and pricier every year I now focus on pissing folk off instead..

I like that plan and bet it is right in my skill set

[Mike OReilly]

Another half-time CLOD here. No reason this should disallow one's contributions.

[Kettlewell]

You're a cruiser if you've just gone cruising at some point. No need to define who's in and who's out. Lots of folks, myself included, get to cruise for awhile, then not so much, and then back at it again. Once you've gone cruising you're always a cruiser...

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by Jim Cate

Phil, why not start up a master class in your speciality? SB1 could be a guest lecturer...

Good luck on shore to both of you.

Jim (just hanging in there on board)

[John_Trusty]

It would be a sad day for this community if Boatman or Sailorboy self-selected out of posting because they felt irrelevant or lacking credibility. You guys have a wealth of experience that I, for one, would appreciate reading. I hope to graduate to CLOD one day.

[GordMay]

We've been CLODs, since before I joined the CruisersForum.

[senormechanico]

Now that we have a perfect (to us) boat and a great waterfront house all paid for, I am now a CLOD, not out of choice.


My loving wife after 54 years of marriage has been diagnosed with the big "A", and can no longer be left alone for more than five minutes or some disaster will certainly happen. One can say it keeps life interesting, but that would not be in a good way.


The boat just sits there looking back at me.