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SandS said..

Love your Yacht , and She will love you back !!!

Mines being a high maintenance blond at the moment and some times I feel I have a harem to maintain
But I guess I am really the culprit

Well I must say, you lot seem rarger Jaded generally and I guess I am too. I do love my yacht

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Toph said..

McNaughtical said.


What is there more to life than love Meg? Love is the essence of life.... to love and be loved... what could possibly be more than that.

Sitting on the back of your boat with an ice cold six pack........

Love if it's good and balanced is okay I guess, but also so much more to life.....freedom, independence, sailing, sports, animals, the ability to choose independently, making your own decisions, the outdoors, nature, achieving, conquering fears, challenging yourself, learning how to roar, developing talents, living life, feeling brave, climbing mountains, crossing oceans, sunrises, fulfillment, good times, friends. 'Love' when quantified only in relation to being between two people I think is a form of control feeding insecurity to varying degrees unless both are independently complete, so many people seem to look to another to fulfill a lack in their life (i.e. I won't be lonely if I have someone else or things won't be so hard etc, etc.) which then means when they 'find' someone they become reliant and the other person becomes pressured, then things fall apart, I don't think that's love. I believe you have to like who you are, love your life (even the disappointments and testing experiences because from them we grow), feel happy and content and fully embrace your life with or without someone in it, I always thought breathing was the essence of life, I think I'd rather breathe and hear my heart beat then love (god I feel like Oprah ).

I told my girl recently that "I love my boat more than you" there was a period of uncomfortable silence and I told her the truth. Anyway it is best to not let shore based activities get in the way of sailing I choose the boat anyway.

Kids, wives, mortgages, business, school, work....I don't even know who I am anymore let alone..."climb mountains and love and experience and choices". Don't you just hate that? If I decided to be myself one day I'd likely end up sitting in a tent up a creek with a crab pot, a vodka still and a pile of hustler magazines. Just for some peace for a while. That's probably not a good thing.
You are right of course though meg.

I feel for you Brizzydave, I was....clever?, fortunate? to avoid all of those kids, marriage, business, mortgage stuff, although I dabbled in it from time to time, ran businesses, bought and sold houses, married once....tried it, didn't like, won't be doing that again, set me on fire first :)! I see alot of couples stressed and unhappy running around with little to no bond or like let alone love, trying to achieve I don't know what at the end of the day? and I'm glad to be single, I'm really happy on my own, make my own choices, do my own thing, maybe some people are just better that way, I plan to step off this earth having lived MY life happy and content not someone elses. I like your idea about the creek but I think I'd sit on a boat, with a crab pot, a Shiraz, a good book and some tunes . McNaughty it is good to see that there are some true believers left and we're not all just jaded old salts, with coal for hearts...lol, it looks like you may have a contender in Frant....whoowooo.

HG02 sounds like you've got some great times ahead to look forward to, I know the time I spend living aboard and cruising about was some of the most stress free and fulfilling times I've had, there's something about being on a yacht that simplifies everything, teaches you how to breathe again, get into a rhythm with the ocean and nature around you, I found the longer I spent away from civilisation and the more remote the destination the more at peace I'd feel you'd go to town and your nerves would jangle with the frantic pace of it all. They say the outside of a horse is good for the inside of a man, I think the same could be said about a yacht and sailing and the ocean and your dead right about you don't need much, people get caught up in accumulating all this STUFF, you can't with you, you just leave it behind for the kids to fight over or burden them with having to take it to the dump and what do you really need it all for in the first place? Does it really make you happy?

this thread is completely different to that soap opera that used to be on tele 30 years ago at midday .

i think it was called ...... " the young and the restless "

this is shaping up to be more like .......................................... " the old and the contented "

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SandS said..


this thread is completely different to that soap opera that used to be on tele 30 years ago at midday .

i think it was called ...... " the young and the restless "

this is shaping up to be more like .......................................... " the old and the contented "

'Old and contented' and very happy to be so .

This tune is good therapy when not on the water !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's an interesting exercise, while we're on the topic: 36 questions - www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/style/36-questions-that-lead-to-love.html

Brizzy, maybe give the kids sandwiches for dinner and send them to bed early (better still, offload them for a night), print the questions and go through them together. Consider it foreplay if you will. You can thank me later.

Frant, feel free to invite McNaughty for a Q&A!

Note: despite the look of the url, it is not about weddings.

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brizzydave said..
Frantz gotta wash his volleys in the machine before he goes so they don't stink too much.

Not good enough ! Give it a couple of hours and his feet would stink so bad, she would have no alternative but to pitch his shoes and him overboard !!!

Even then there would be a lingering odor. That type of shoe are really poisonous , i know this from personal experience ! [ about the shoes that is ]

She might just give him a very nice pedicure Sands
Eat you heart out

You guys have brightened up my night and given me a good chuckle...about the volleys and size 14 feet...lol

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LooseChange said..

HG02 said..


Maybe we should call this thread the old farts club and grumpy old men's thread

Tell me C3PO, which one of those two do you identify with? Old fart? or Grumpy old man? .. scuse me again while I snigger softly to myself.

Arent they the same thing?