The More I See The Less I Know

Thanks, I sit here landlocked in the US, my mistress, S/V Yemaya awaits me in San Carlos, Sonora, MX. reading your log of the crossing from Jamaica to Cuba refreshes my soul and breathes a gust of salt air into my lungs. It takes back 2 years on a passage from Puerto Vallarta Mx. to The Marquesas. a mere 3100 nm's. We were 23 days at sea and totally on our own. I was crew on my friends boat S/V arrabella, a Swift 40, no auto pilot, no wind vane, 3 of us hand steering 3 on 6 off the cumalative fatigue was incredible, Severe convection, and unpredictable 40 knot winds in ICTZ required constant attention. All this and still on the morning of the 23rd day as the sun came up astern and the verdant green cliffs of Hiva Oa rose from the colbalt blue sea, I mourned the completion of this quest. Truly , you are not really alive unless you are out there hanging on looking over the edge of your mortality. Thanks also for the Einstein quote, he puts it as profoundly as I feel it.
You sound like a very interesting woman, I admire your ability to gulp down the intoxicating liquor of life yet still be so in touch with your surroundings.
Perhaps the powers of the universe will allow our paths to cross in some future anchorage.

Fair winds and following seas

Baja Bob

Didn't want to just "lurk".

I ran across you on crew finder. I'm fairly impressed, although I don't think I quite get you. You seem to be quite the sailor and adventurer. Rather a lady after my own heart. I sail a 45' Columbia here and there, you sound like an amazing woman to know, or at the very least, someone to sit around and share a few beers and a lot of stories with. Love to chat sometime. I'm on Florida's east coast preparing to head south soon.. I have no idea where you are. Mike

It is great to see your photos get in touch if you want to sail, I love travel but it has been slow going the last few years. Time to get restarted, got boat need crew and away we go

Hi christine, Love your style, haven't seen all your pics yet. I also like the "crew only" statement. I am a new sailor, that's sailboats. Did a lot of wandering around in the Navy. Like to see it a little better this time.

Hello,
I am a well travelled open minded, fun individual looking to catch a ride.
What is your itinerary. Thanks---Mark

See I didn't just "lurk"!!!
Here is a quote from Henry David Thoreau...
For him it was the woods-For you-perhaps-it is the sea-For myself-I am searching-yet waiting-praying what path it will be....
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion." Walden- What I Lived For, pg. 101

hey!!!! sorry my hotmail account is being a newb... how are you? how the great adventure? have you got you treasure stolen by pirates? ahgggg!!! so many questions and i'll have to wait in agony until you get a signal!!!!
lovs ya
joon

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and remember, no matter where you go there you are...