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Leon Sisson
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Response Posted - 06/25/2010 :  15:46:56  Show Profile  Visit Leon Sisson's Homepage
<font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><center><b>Life is short, death long, the future uncertain. Live now.</b></center>
"<b>Go small, go now."</b> -- Lin and Larry Pardey

I don't know if they were the first to say it, but they seem to get the credit. If you're on this forum, you're part way there.

Back in 2002 I suddenly found myself on an unplanned, unpaid vacation, along with about 1,000 others in the same local industry. It took a few weeks of job hunting for the laughable futility to sink in. So I finished up my C-25 To-Do list, and got serious about those day dreams of island hopping in the Bahamas. Once I shifted mental gears, it wasn't hard to cast off the lines, literally and figuratively. I wouldn't trade those memories for whatever pay checks I might have missed while living them.

My C-25 was one of the two smallest foreign flagged sailboats I saw in the Abacos. (There was another C-25.) Several times older owners of larger cruising boats told me, "You made the right choice, going sooner in a smaller boat."

A lot of boat owners are planning to take that dream cruise just as soon as ______. (Fill in the blank with any number of artificial obstacles.) And a lot of cruising boats at estate sales need a bottom job, and never did make it over the horizon.

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Stinkpotter
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by redviking</i>
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St. Pete Flooreeda for hurricane season....
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">Start laying some booms around your hull!
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