levi

OK Levi, Boats are toys for big boys (and big girls), Yes, we are crazy to be messing about in boats - these beautiful boxes that float. But, so are people that pay good money to go to a resort where it is 20 below and ski down a big hill and hit their heads on pine trees and die! And, what about those that fly around in airplanes and could fall thousands of feet out the sky? At least if we fall out of our boats we are only a few feet above sea-level! And, then there are those people who travel all over the world just to hit a little white ball into the water or a sand-trap! So, if you are going to be crazy - a trawler makes the most comfortable and agreeable insane asylum I can think of! Brian Hall CHB45 "Any Sea" Baltimore --------- > From: Jim Weideman <levi2@nc.tds.net> > Subject: Am I crazy? > > I've been lurking for some time now and am somewhat afraid to tell you > people in trawler world who I am. So for now I won't. > I just wonder if I am crazy. All my life I have wanted to sail around the > world. I have no experience. I took a course for a week [on a 36' > sailboat] two years ago. My father had a 27' cabincruiser on the Ohio > River which i periodically used, but mainly I used my 18' ski boat on > weekends[this was 30 years ago]. > Now I am 53 and my dream is still haunting me. I feel like something is > pushing me and it seems to get stronger every day. A year ago I noticed a > trawler for the first time while I was looking at sailboats. It seemed > more doable and practicle to me. I have read Voyaging Under Power. > So now I am looking to buy a seaworthy trawler to circumnagivate. I know > I have alot to learn. My plan is to buy, learn, and go.... > .Wha'd ya think, am I crazy? > > levi