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• Anybody hear their biological boat-owner, clock ticking?
  • At 55, I'm still going strong and my new boat isn't making things any easier
    • Trailer sailing gets old fast
      • We do have a couple of moorings
        • Half open
  • You can always go smaller
  • I just finished installing electric winches
  • Great Shot Tom
  • Heading to marina today to pull my 21 footer out
    • Yep, I'm watching you closely for some sign of when I should quit !
      • For the first time ever, they are all home
  • Yup
  • Yup - that's why I had her painted this year
  • Biological clock
    • It's the clock as well as the biologic
  • That's not a clock you hear, it's a bomb.
    • And yet...
      • That's one of my favorites, particularly the last 2 verses. But here's another
        • Francis Drake's prayer before setting out for parts unknown
          • Thanks Ken, Charlie & Max
    • I think David Buckman that writes "fetching Along", sails the same boat, Ken.
      • That's a nice piece of writing.
        • I like a little fog and damp too, but I don't go looking for it.
          • Tom, I've seen you write just as well in some of your past work...
      • It is indeed an IF Boat. I love the Buckmans' articles and photos in GOB and other magazines.
  • tick tick tick
  • Broke my back 3 weeks ago on the boat.
    • Holy Crap Dan! I'm really sorry to hear that
    • Literally?
      • Compression fracture of L1
        • Ouch! Sorry to read that.
    • Back problems are no fun!
    • Damn, sorry to hear that, Dan... Take care, buddy
    • Dan, Sorry to hear that! I feel your pain.
      • Dan, Steve... Yowtch!
    • Dan, I feell your pain. Just got out of the hospital this morning after laminectomy/spinal fusion.
      • Ouch - I hope you recover quickly
        • Only a brace
    • Ouch, hope both of you have a good recovery
  • Clock? What Clock?
  • Exit strategy
    • Funny, last boat I delivered was named EXIT STRATEGY...
      • Cape May
        • downsized
          • one more
            • That's a great looking boat. What are it's details, again?
              • I wanna know too!
                • I owned a Sailmaster earlier.
              • She started life as a 22' Sparkman & Stephens
                • interior
                • Wow! Somebody put a good eye to that transformation.
                  • Test
            • Beautiful boat, but
  • Beautiful shot, Tom... Yup, sure felt it the other day...
    • If you are going up north . . .
    • I wouldn't worry about a late start this year
      • I feel sorry for the working water people. Boat yards, schooner crews, eww,....
        • Ugh. We hauled out in the rain a few years ago.
  • My right knee chimes in, ...
  • Reading these posts has made me feel better.
  • Signed up for Medicare starting in July, getting ready for a transatlantic
  • Good small boats for when it's time to downsize?
    • I've wondered the same thing, Jeff.
      • That my opinion right now as well
        • I really think our 35' boat is easier to sail than her 26' predecessor.
      • Naive to think of maintaining cruising style in smaller boat?
    • I downsized to a 26' Nimble trailer boat
  • A friend of ours is 82 and still...
    • I hadn't seen John, a retired USN captain, around the harbor or the boatyard for a couple years
  • Tick-tock.......
    • That's a beauty too!