All hands-- Here's an email I received from a PUP subscriber the other day. It was a private message so I have deleted the name, but I want to share it because it so strongly underscores the value of Passagemaking Under Power List. I especially draw it to the attention of those already out there voyaging the world. Here is how much posts about your real-world experiences mean to planners and dreamers: > Georgs, My wife and I have no boat, but we have dreams. Until two > years > ago we were looking to buy a passagemaking boat sufficient in size > and power > to travel from Florida to one of our homes in Brasil. Our kids are > grown > and out of university so all that tuition could finally go in to a > respectable Nordhavn or Choey Lee, then came 2009, heart surgery, > heart > attack and then small stroke which left me partially blind. Now > thank god I > am really on the mend thanks to doctors in Brasil and the Cleveland > Clinic. > Now to the point of this email, throughout my ordeal my wife and I > have > never given up on passagemaking, we are young, 56, and feel we have > a long > life ahead now and PUP has been a daily read. Until I am completely > well > and know we can do it (with help) we can live somewhat vicariously > through > the adventures of others. I think love of adventure is the key word > for > someone to enjoy your site, boat owner or not. We follow the blogs of > various adventurer's. On occasion I tune the PUP site out when nit > picking > begins and whining and naysayers hit the site. But even then I save > the > emails I have for several years. I will read all one day as a book > for me > when we do finally get our boat. Just to let you know we appreciate > your > site and work. XXXXXX XXXXXX, Sao Paulo, Brasil/Hunt, Texas Georgs Kolesnikovs Your host at Trawlers & Trawlering since 1997 http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com Your host at TrawlerCrawler.net since 2009 http://www.trawlercrawler.net