Did a little self investment today. Picked up a grapnel type anchor for the dinghy, a fishing pole, a few shiny lures and some heavy fishing line. Monday I plan on going out to the shallows outside the marina and see if I can start coming up with dinner once in a while. Being a pragmatic kind of guy I've never been one for sport fishing but fishing for food makes sense to me.
It looks like I may be making some bucks this month, so I believe that if I can come up with the right kind of green a solar panel is in the offing. What better than to learn how to live on the hook while at the marina. Safety nets are cool. A DC fan or two, some automotive type LED's for lighting.......
Got enough cable now for the aft safety lines and maybe even a cable from the cockpit to the pulpit for a safety harness. If I'm gonna single-hand I'm gonna do it as safe as possible. Don't have, nor can I afford a roller-reefer. No trips forward without being strapped in.
I was talking with Ric on the way back from Daytona explaining how as a biker I considered the motorcycle as a horse to learn to work with. Then I went and became a horse rancher and learned how to really work with horses, how to become part of the animal in a partnership. Now I'm becoming a sailor and it feels as if the ocean is another horse I want to learn how to work with and Avalon is the saddle and harness. This came out in conversation totally ad-lib, as much a revelation for me as an explanation to Ric.
What I'm doing with my life now feels good and right. I can feel my sphincter pucker a little when I try to visualise going out into deep water on my own, but I'm also looking so forward to doing it. Fear is natural. We all experience it. What we do with it is what defines courage.
What a life! Can you think of anything better to do with it than live it?
No one gets out of here alive, so live it like ya mean it.
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