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23-05-2017, 10:58
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Good question
Boat: Rafiki 37
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Re: Cruising Can Be Boring
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Originally Posted by sailorboy1
I love reading on an Internet forum how happy people are to just sit around and watch the grass grow for days on end!
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Written by the fella looking for good, free Internet? . What? Not enough grass growing over your way
Seriously though, I have good friends who just can't sit still. They always have to be "doing something." They have to have plans, a schedule, to get things done, to be going somewhere or seeing something...
And then there are people (like me) who can sit and navel gaze for days. There's always something to do, even it that means watching the waves dance in the sunlight and wondering how it can look like star light in mid-day.
There's no Right or Wrong way. People are different, which is a Good thing. Do what makes you happy, and don't denigrate others if they do something different (like watching the grass grow).
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23-05-2017, 11:08
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#62
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CLOD
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: being planted in Jacksonville Fl
Boat: none
Posts: 20,415
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Re: Cruising Can Be Boring
When it comes right down to it, there's always something to do not matter what. But it could be veeeery boring!
And yes I what the Internet!!!!! This is the year 2017 and I live on a boat not a cave.
And it doesn't have to free, I paid more than once for the Internet while in the Bahamas and sometimes it was waste of money.
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Don't ask a bunch of unknown forum people if it is OK to do something on YOUR boat. It is your boat, do what you want!
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23-05-2017, 12:11
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#63
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Good question
Boat: Rafiki 37
Posts: 14,206
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Re: Cruising Can Be Boring
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Originally Posted by sailorboy1
When it comes right down to it, there's always something to do no matter what. But it could be veeeery boring!
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Well said. I think this sums things for perfectly .
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23-05-2017, 12:14
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#64
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2014
Location: USA
Boat: 41' yawl
Posts: 1,187
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Re: Cruising Can Be Boring
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Originally Posted by Mike OReilly
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dude are you gonna tell us about falling down the elevator shaft or what?
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23-05-2017, 13:17
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#65
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cruiser
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Pangaea
Posts: 10,856
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Re: Cruising Can Be Boring
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Originally Posted by chris95040
dude are you gonna tell us about falling down the elevator shaft or what?
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It's probably a very similar experience to the one I had 12 years ago when I fell down two flights of stairs and had a 700 pound grand piano land on top of me.
Life looks much different after an experience like that, 'changes your entire outlook.
Right Mike?
Ken
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23-05-2017, 13:41
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Registered User
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Re: Cruising Can Be Boring
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kenomac
It's probably a very similar experience to the one I had 12 years ago when I fell down two flights of stairs and had a 700 pound grand piano land on top of me.
Life looks much different after an experience like that, 'changes your entire outlook.
Right Mike?
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It sure does.
Brings into focus what is really important in life. Like how to enjoy the moments, taking the time to appreciate what is in front of you -- and the importance of landing on your feet if you're going to fall seven floors .
P.S. "a 700 pound grand piano land on top of me"... ouch
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23-05-2017, 13:55
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Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: aboard, in Tasmania, Australia
Boat: Sayer 46' Solent rig sloop
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Re: Cruising Can Be Boring
OOOOooookaaay, Mike,
How, exactly, came you to fall down an elevator shaft? The falling part was easy, I know, once there, but how on earth....???
Ann
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23-05-2017, 13:56
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cruiser
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Pangaea
Posts: 10,856
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Re: Cruising Can Be Boring
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike OReilly
It sure does.
Brings into focus what is really important in life. Like how to enjoy the moments, taking the time to appreciate what is in front of you -- and the importance of landing on your feet if you're going to fall seven floors .
P.S. "a 700 pound grand piano land on top of me"... ouch
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I limped away with just a bruised knee on the day I shoulda died. The very corner of the grand piano got caught on an 8 inch tall concrete flower pot which prevented the upside down piano from completely crushing me.
It caught the piano by less than two inches. Every day since has been a gift.
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23-05-2017, 14:04
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#69
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2014
Location: USA
Boat: 41' yawl
Posts: 1,187
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Re: Cruising Can Be Boring
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kenomac
I limped away with just a bruised knee on the day I shoulda died. The very corner of the grand piano got caught on an 8 inch tall concrete flower pot which prevented the upside down piano from completely crushing me.
It caught the piano by less than two inches. Every day since has been a gift.
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ooof.
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23-05-2017, 15:30
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#70
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Good question
Boat: Rafiki 37
Posts: 14,206
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Re: Cruising Can Be Boring
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Originally Posted by JPA Cate
OOOOooookaaay, Mike,
How, exactly, came you to fall down an elevator shaft? The falling part was easy, I know, once there, but how on earth....???
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Well... this is really taking this thread off on a tangent, but since a moderator asks
It was kinda like one of those game shows, where the host asks the contestant to pick Door #1, or Door #2. Anyway, I picked the wrong door.
Doors open. I didn't look. Down I go.
Didn't get the prize ... or maybe I did (appreciation of life at a young age... and all the jazz). All I know is, I used to be 2" taller .
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23-05-2017, 15:39
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Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: aboard, in Tasmania, Australia
Boat: Sayer 46' Solent rig sloop
Posts: 28,524
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Re: Cruising Can Be Boring
OH MAN!
Mike, great on your epiphany, but sorry about the 2". A survivor of two spinal fusions, and one spinal decompression surgery, I have some idea what that means. Mega-ouch.
By the way, when I'm posting, mostly, if I'm moderating, I do it in blue color, to differentiate it from my more or less normal pontificating. I figured that it would be okay to ask, or you'd never have mentioned it. However, just because someone asks doesn't mean you have to answer.
Moderation comments will come to you via PM or in open forum, but labeled as such, regardless of color.
Ann
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23-05-2017, 16:38
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Australia
Boat: Catalina 470
Posts: 4,578
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Re: Cruising Can Be Boring
Boring to me is the thought of mowing lawns, washing cars, painting houses and shopping at Harvey Norman on Saturday afternoon with boss (partner).....cruising on the other hand is the alternative to a " creeping death of sameness".
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23-05-2017, 23:50
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#73
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: forest city
Boat: no boat any more
Posts: 2,511
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Re: Cruising Can Be Boring
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Originally Posted by daletournier
Boring to me is the thought of mowing lawns, washing cars, painting houses and shopping at Harvey Norman on Saturday afternoon with boss (partner).....cruising on the other hand is the alternative to a " creeping death of sameness".
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couldn't have put it better (as non-native-speaker)
now "on-the-beach" for nearly 18 years after 17 years & 3rtw cruises I can only emphatically state:
if, during our peregrinations, I would ever, in a fleeting moment of weakness because of stress (foul weather, hostile "natives", whatever) have wished us "back" into a 9-5-situation (I never did!!!), now, after those 18 years of living (due to breeding reasons) in such a 9-5 situation: no comparison!!!
life ashore/without a boat is possible - but meaningless! I'm counting the days
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24-05-2017, 00:45
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#74
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Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2008
Boat: Bestevaer 49
Posts: 16,151
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Re: Cruising Can Be Boring
Some of the best times on the water have been when "stuck in an anchorage waiting for the weather to change" .
SWL
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"To me the simple act of tying a knot is an adventure in unlimited space." Clifford Ashley
"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea." Isak Dinesen
Unveiling Bullseye strops for low friction rings
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24-05-2017, 01:20
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#75
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cruiser
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Probably in an anchorage or a boatyard..
Boat: Ebbtide 33' steel cutter
Posts: 5,030
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Re: Cruising Can Be Boring
Quote:
Originally Posted by Seaworthy Lass
Some of the best times on the water have been when "stuck in an anchorage waiting for the weather to change" .
SWL
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Also some of the worst of times
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