tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903828557671115365.post6420429179504695537..comments2024-03-29T11:55:31.759+11:00Comments on Twice In A Lifetime: Opportunity CostMikeAlisaEliasErichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13902073678760664040noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903828557671115365.post-7484858153644145262016-10-01T10:31:25.474+10:002016-10-01T10:31:25.474+10:00Hey Phil. It's a funny thing once you're l...Hey Phil. It's a funny thing once you're living the way you dreamed. The dream becomes your everyday life, so becomes pretty un-dream-like. But! Once you're out of the marina and into the just-right palm-fringed anchorage, far from the internet access that brings you other people's sailing blogs, that might be allright.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04307788103369409650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903828557671115365.post-91834370008161650362016-09-29T20:57:45.304+10:002016-09-29T20:57:45.304+10:00Do you ever worry that the dream, once it becomes ...Do you ever worry that the dream, once it becomes reality, may not be quite the pinacle standing event you were expecting. Just wondering. I'm in the cockpit in a marina that has all of the potential to be excellent, but didn't quite get there, waiting for weather to continue south. I've dreamed of this trip and here I am 899 miles on, haven't seen fireworks but have seen amazing things and met wonderful people. I'll just keep doing this until I get a job in the chanderlry.<br /><br />Kind regards, and thanks for the blog<br />Phil<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903828557671115365.post-67514466601438863052016-09-26T20:40:44.931+10:002016-09-26T20:40:44.931+10:00Whatever you do, it'll cost you and you have t...Whatever you do, it'll cost you and you have to take risks. What your economist is ignoring, that spending your prime earning years earning isn't guaranteed to work either, be it because they be short-cut by lay-offs, bad luck with employer or a financial crisis.<br /><br />So the safe bet can end you in a run-down retirement home after a bunch of strokes just like cruising might leave you the crazy old fart on dilapidated boat in run-down marina. Both are probably no fun.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01767165953667805438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903828557671115365.post-44354408913037104452016-09-25T17:19:56.716+10:002016-09-25T17:19:56.716+10:00Hi Galactic !
I follow your writing with interest....Hi Galactic !<br />I follow your writing with interest. I have been sailing for a life time and my experience is that those not familiar with longterm cruising have no clue of what it´s all about. These people have the tendency to mirror themselves in what you do. They do not always like what they see and too easily turn their reaction into scepticism and even criticism. I have seldom met a more happy family than that on Galactic (even if the father was `missing`when i met them in the southern ocean. Keep cruising and fair winds! All the best from the captain on Villvind !<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903828557671115365.post-72964769547598582972016-09-24T16:51:38.418+10:002016-09-24T16:51:38.418+10:00I am not a sailor but I read and follow your journ...I am not a sailor but I read and follow your journey with a great deal of interest. The foundations of a good life are not measured in money. Your sons will have a rich adult life because of what you are doing now. The future will take care of itself because you both have the right outlook and enquiring mind to try things out whether on land or at sea. What we have is 'life' it is to be lived and money, well it is useful but it is not the sole reason for our existence. So stuff the so called economists and politicians et al. Go for it, enjoy it, embrace it all, your sons will be the beneficiaries. Regards VirginiaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903828557671115365.post-60406421566534346432016-09-24T05:09:22.025+10:002016-09-24T05:09:22.025+10:00I think Sterling Hayden said it best:
“To be trul...I think Sterling Hayden said it best:<br />“To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea... "cruising" it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about.<br /><br />"I've always wanted to sail to the south seas, but I can't afford it." What these men can't afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of "security." And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine - and before we know it our lives are gone.<br /><br />What does a man need - really need? A few pounds of food each day, heat and shelter, six feet to lie down in - and some form of working activity that will yield a sense of accomplishment. That's all - in the material sense, and we know it. But we are brainwashed by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of time payments, mortgages, preposterous gadgetry, playthings that divert our attention for the sheer idiocy of the charade.<br /><br />The years thunder by, The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked in dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.horizonstarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17369419258486734900noreply@blogger.com