Cruising Musings
- If you buy it you will fix it, replace it, rebuild it
- If you don't buy it, you will probably regret it but you will have more cash for rum!
- Don't listen to everything everyone tells you, it's too expensive
- Water is heavy! (we removed a leaking water tank and the water line is just fine now)
- Inside every small project are a number of large projects trying to get out (this is a colliery to the more popular "project law" about a number of small projects trying to get out a large project). A 2 hour job to replace the RACOR fuel filter system on Tarun turned into a 3 day job after I decided to move the filters to a "more convenient location"
- The ocean is a really small place - We were "crashing" the "All Islander Rendezvous" this week at the Oakland and Encinal Yacht Clubs and ended up having dinner with the lady who was doing the position reports on the Pacific Seafarers Net from Alaska Eagle during the time we were coming down the coast to San Francisco from Victoria in August
- No matter what you buy, someone will always come up to you later and say "Oh, I had one of those that I don't use anymore, I would have given it to you" (when this is said of course, it's too late to return what you bought anyways!)
- ALWAYS second guess what you think you NEED on a boat. So far in the past 3 weeks we have not spent about 6000 dollars on various MUST HAVES
- According to our friend Cheryl if it has testicles or tires, it will break down
- And finally, cruising really is defined as sailing to beautiful places, meeting wonderful people and then fixing your boat.
- If you don't buy it, you will probably regret it but you will have more cash for rum!
- Don't listen to everything everyone tells you, it's too expensive
- Water is heavy! (we removed a leaking water tank and the water line is just fine now)
- Inside every small project are a number of large projects trying to get out (this is a colliery to the more popular "project law" about a number of small projects trying to get out a large project). A 2 hour job to replace the RACOR fuel filter system on Tarun turned into a 3 day job after I decided to move the filters to a "more convenient location"
- The ocean is a really small place - We were "crashing" the "All Islander Rendezvous" this week at the Oakland and Encinal Yacht Clubs and ended up having dinner with the lady who was doing the position reports on the Pacific Seafarers Net from Alaska Eagle during the time we were coming down the coast to San Francisco from Victoria in August
- No matter what you buy, someone will always come up to you later and say "Oh, I had one of those that I don't use anymore, I would have given it to you" (when this is said of course, it's too late to return what you bought anyways!)
- ALWAYS second guess what you think you NEED on a boat. So far in the past 3 weeks we have not spent about 6000 dollars on various MUST HAVES
- According to our friend Cheryl if it has testicles or tires, it will break down
- And finally, cruising really is defined as sailing to beautiful places, meeting wonderful people and then fixing your boat.
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