Boating – Page 15 – Trips of Discovery

To have a power or sailboat

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes – Now, we’re on really sensitive territory! For me, sail boating wasn’t part of my dream, ever. I love and adore sailboats, I love looking at them and visiting them, but they are not for me. To have my kind of fun, I would need a 45’ – 50’ sailboat, but then dealing with it would no longer be fun for me. As far as I am concerned, it is too much work to pilot a sailboat. I deeply respect those who are doing it. Although they have fuel engines, they are primarily designed for wind, need I say more? Sailboat Race on the Chesapeake. The Wednesday Night Races on...

August 31, 2018

by Kazaz

Transition

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes – All my life, I romanticized island living and wanted to live on a relatively small island, even if it would only be on weekends. However, when I thought of a small island, I never thought of a Robinson Crusoe type of isolated living. My island has to be established, well endowed, and small enough that it’s home to a few hundred to a few thousand very friendly people. It definitely has to have an abundance of freshwater (that is a must for me) and a mostly sunny, lush green habitat, starting from its beaches and perhaps climbing up to small hills. No mosquitoes and weird bugs, please. Oh, of course,...