Attaya

restless boat syndrome

real lfe started at ten years of age when i learned to sail. that was when i first came down with a bad case of boats . i spent every waking hour of the following summers sailing one boat or another . then i started rowing competitively so i could spend more time on the water . when i got old enuf to get a job i started teaching sailing . pretty much every job i’ve ever had since then had something to do with boats ; teaching in them , captaining them , building them, even a bit of aquaculture in them . in the grenadines now , heading for grenada for hurricane season . enjoying living on a cat after more than twenty years living on monohulls . this is my seventh cruising boat but my first cat . i’m enjoying all the space and comfort of two hulls tho i’m still a minimalist at heart . i live in one of the hulls while the other hull is basically uninhabited : two cabins with a head and shower . ideally , i’d like to share the boat with a woman , to achieve proper yin - yang port starboard balance and for expanded socializing particularly at anchor socializing with other cruisers . not looking for romance , just a good shipmate . theres a dive compressor aboard and dive gear to explore underwater , and to keep up the boat . i tend to be a grazer but i do like to cook. spicy is good . for some reason i never developed much of a taste for alcohol which is unfortunately a detriment to cruiser socializing . but i try . you can’t sail the caribbean without drinking rum . in my home state of maine cannabis is legal now so that suits me fine . it would be nice if you like a variety of ( mostly ) non amplified roots music ; americana , blues , calypso , mento , outlaw country , a little pop . people like lucinda williams , kathleen edwards , rodney crowell , todd snider and of course dylan . i enjoy listening to npr public radio and the beeb . i enjoy history ; past present and future . my last real job was as a shipwright at a maritime museum , restoring historic ships . six years in private school and four years at yale , ( on scholarship ) , what a long strange trip it’s been .i’ll be headed back to st martin next fall/ winter to chill with friends . on the other hand : strange travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god .

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