Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery(1900-1944)
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The Boat
s/v Ocean Girl
The Girl
Erika - sailin the hell outta dat boat
Eluthera, Bahamas. School girls walking home.
Sailing a 51ft Little Harbor
Chasing a submarine, getting yelled at, retreating from said submarine..ahh thems were good times.
About Me
- Erika (aka Ocean Girl)
- Kemah, Texas, United States
- "She starts--she moves--she seems to feel the thrill of life along her keel, And spurning with her foot the ground, With one exulting, joyous bound, She leaps into the ocean's arms!" -Longfellow. Well that poem is me in a nut shell. I have always loved the ocean, grew up around it, have sailed over 20,000 miles on it. It still amazes me how the sea soothes my soul and thrills me from the top of my head to the tips of my toes . A place I can breath, a place where I feel God smile down on me… a great big horizon to horizon smile. I love boats about as much as I love the sea. Multi or mono, traditional or modern, I love em all. I live aboard a Cape Dory 30. Her name is Ocean Girl and I plan on single handing her to Australia by 2012 (unless someone special waylays my plans).**UPDATE (11/2010) Soul Mate found!
2 comments:
Hey, Ocean Girl -- I just came across your blog, and love the de Saint-Exupery quote! I've got his book, "Wind, Sand and Stars" and he's got some great writing in it; not sailing-related, but inspirational and thought-provoking, all the same.
I've also read your mom's book (I used to do books for Good Old Boat magazine), so was surprised to see the connection between you.
Anyway, good luck with your dream!
Frederick G Street
S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38)
on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^(
Thanks! Love the Landfalls and love the name of her too! Hope you are back in the water soon.
Erika
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