Dinner Between 2 Sailors
Last night at a technical conference dinner I sat at a table next to someone — and then a few minutes later someone sat down on the other side of me.
Shortly I found that the guy on my right had taught sailing for umpteen years and the guy on my left had skippered a 65′ catamaran and lived on a sailboat in the Caribbean!
I couldn’t have planned it any better.
I got some good advice from the guy on the right, including, when going shopping for our boat be *sure * and get someone who knows what they’re doing to look it over first. He told me a horror story fo a couple who failed to do that and really paid for it.
The guy on the left suggested that we buy our boat in the Eastern Caribbean and get our sea legs there instead of starting from Florida and heading east. He said the Gulf Stream crossing can be no fun and if my wife is apprehensive about the whole thing, making it fun and easy at first is really important.
Sounds good to me!
After this week I really want to get this thing done by the end of the year. In fact, I’m thinking maybe I need to set an actual goal — something like, we head for the Caribbean to look for a boat on my 46th birthday, December, 24, 2008.
By April 1 I’ll fiure out the goal and set it.
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