Here is a link to our summer trip blog, so we don't crowd Rain Dogs blog with a bunch of landlubber stuff, which can be quite eye glazing to some sailors ( no offense to the dirt dwellers ) :-) http://koala26sswoopwoop.blogspot.com/ - Posted using BlogPress from my iPad
My goals..well the ultimate goal is to go cruising on my sailboat or my soul mate's sailboat, and use my nursing skills to help those in need (soul mate, if you are out there...call me :-) ).**UPDATE 11/2010 SOUL MATE FOUND!
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.
"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!