Too much time thinking by yesterday, it being the last Sunday before I return to regular work for the year. Well as regular as I chose.
Anyway, it's my blog... there were three events: I realised my love off sailing is actually two loves, I cleaned out Misty my Hunter 19 trailer sailed and revisited Sven Yrvind's blog.
My love affair with two different types puff sailing. Well I am expressing that way and I think it may be uniquly me. It seemed to understand my Boat Confusion Status. That status has paralysed me, I begin dreaming of a path in sailing and convince myself that "this is it", the answer to my boating dream. It could be a build of a coastal capable sailing boat with shoal water potential, or a shanty boat or a push to modify my trailer sailed to go Bluewater voyaging.
What typically happens is that great energy it's expended in a certain project, only for my focus to wander into a new project. I find it very frustrating, not the least because it's timbre consuming and disheartening. Then, yesterday I had thirds breakthrough in understanding what could be going on, two loves are tangling my thoughts. One love is Bluewater sailing, the other is living aboard, crossing oceans vs being up a creek and throwing away the paddle. Now most people would think as I have; week the solution is to builda shoal draft bluewater boat. That has merit, put all my resources into one big project. But well, I don't have enough cash or the wherewithall to do that. I have people that are dependent on me to be locked in to my showcased life. I simply cannot sell up and move aboard, there is work, maintain a shed, horses to horse, feed and train, personal care duties to perform. The Pahi 26 and of the second hand Ferro cruising boats were boats that could take me there, and, in time my life course will change to favor thirds route, potentially. But I don't know for certain.
So, I need to break it down. One Bluewater boat, one kind off shanty boat. Two different boats, two different loves and lifestyles. My tastes are to have smaller boats to fit these bills, a tiny offshore sailboat like the tinny capsule boats, a Paradox or heavily modified production yacht and a more spacious way less swarthy boat like an old live aboard cruising yacht or house/shanty boat. But the trick I have to play with my head is, is to keep these interests separate. To not try, ad I have done in the pay, to conflate these two very different things.
Right art the moment I can resource a small Bluewater boat. My current and previous interests include:-
A Llayden Paradox, this design has weaknesses with regards to offshore capability re strength, watertightness, and self- righting ability. Sven Yrvind has identified with the Paradox and offers unique solutions with his Exlex build.
Larger Production yacht, well there are some affordable ones about , but they needs bucket of cash to make seaworthy ... and you still have a habit of ss fittings, flimsy rig, bad sail design for solo sailing. Roger D. Taylor offers solutions here with the Mingming projects.
More on melding these two later.
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