The ultimate dream for many cruising sailors is to go off on a long adventure..
I have made a list of some sites which tell the tale of those who have done just that. I have also linked to some sites that may be of use if you are planning your adventure right now.
Firstly, the site www.furledsails.com hosts a number of podcasts with interviews from a number of leading names in the world of sailing – people like Nick Maloney
Secondly, the excellent service Mailasail.com which supplies Iridium & Inmarsat Satellite Phones with Backup and support also hosts blogs for all its customers and some 100 or so also allow the active transmisson of their location while on their travels – see the picture below…
Lastly – some web links that I have come across…
LOCKE…
“…The imagination is always restless and suggests a variety of thoughts, and the will, reason being laid aside, is ready for every extravagant project; and in this State, he that goes farthest out of the way, is thought fittest to lead, and is sure of most followers: And when Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and ’twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it. He that will impartially survey the Nations of the World, will find so much of the Governments, Religion, and Manners brought in and continued amongst them by these means, that they will have but little Reverence for the Practices which are in use and credit amongst Men….”
Kenneth Grahame – 1926
WIND IN THE WILLOWS “…Believe me my young friend (said the water rat solemnly), there is nothing absolutely nothing half so much worth doing as simply messing around in boats. Simply messing. Nothing seems to matter, that’s the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don’t. Whether you arrive at your destination, or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get away at all. you’re always busy, and you never do anything in particular…”
Oh well, one day;-) …in the meantime keep sailing.
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