Nomad Willy
Guru
BanB,
I haven't done boating all my life. Started in 49 on my fathers boat .. 103'.
When I was 12 I built my first boat. A canvas covered kayak.
Then roughly in the 80's I did flying and during those 20 years the only boating I did was canoeing. I even have three canoes now but I quit flying w/o much looking back.
I could quit boating again but I'd rather not.
So I drive carefully w all the skill I've got.
Kev rm,
Yes. That's what I'm doing now. I know that looking after my body is the best thing I can do to preserving my boating experience.
FlyWright,
Al that brings up a good question. Is our lifestyle the kind of boat we have and how we use it? Or is our lifestyle how we eat, what cloths we wear, what music we like or do we like music at all, do we understand art and recognize it when we see it, do we read really good books or do we read trash, do we read about the world or only how to do things.
I think this business of calling trawlering one's lifestyle is nonsense. It's part of our lifestyle. Our real lifestyle is what kind of person we are. And that is what we do and think that makes us who we are. And boating doesn't have much to do w that. Riding motorcycles, running boats, gardening, hiking, dancing, making music ...
But if a person does nothing but trawlering, calling it a lifestyle I suppose is correct or just. But for most of us it's just part of our lifestyle.
I haven't done boating all my life. Started in 49 on my fathers boat .. 103'.
When I was 12 I built my first boat. A canvas covered kayak.
Then roughly in the 80's I did flying and during those 20 years the only boating I did was canoeing. I even have three canoes now but I quit flying w/o much looking back.
I could quit boating again but I'd rather not.
So I drive carefully w all the skill I've got.
Kev rm,
Yes. That's what I'm doing now. I know that looking after my body is the best thing I can do to preserving my boating experience.
FlyWright,
Al that brings up a good question. Is our lifestyle the kind of boat we have and how we use it? Or is our lifestyle how we eat, what cloths we wear, what music we like or do we like music at all, do we understand art and recognize it when we see it, do we read really good books or do we read trash, do we read about the world or only how to do things.
I think this business of calling trawlering one's lifestyle is nonsense. It's part of our lifestyle. Our real lifestyle is what kind of person we are. And that is what we do and think that makes us who we are. And boating doesn't have much to do w that. Riding motorcycles, running boats, gardening, hiking, dancing, making music ...
But if a person does nothing but trawlering, calling it a lifestyle I suppose is correct or just. But for most of us it's just part of our lifestyle.
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