Last night I woke up somewhere around 3 am with small cruising boats floating in my subconscious. It's probably a residual effect from yesterday's blog entry to Zoshas Wake extolling tiny world voyagers. Wish I knew how to insert that blog as a link here but I don't..........if you are interested, check my blog archives for the November 27, 2011 entry.................anyways, in this blog, I mentioned many stalwart but diminutive cruising sailboats that have logged monumental voyages and were dear to me...........well, last night the spirits of the the many vessels that I omitted from mention but just as dear came to visit me as I slept....they asked one at a time and in unison...."why did you not include me?"......."why did you forget us?'....."are we not as equally valiant?"
I couldn't sleep the rest of the night as my mind raced through the roll call of these dauntless vessels.......somewhere in the night I vowed to try and make amends to the empyrean forces that manifest themselves in these magnificent boats....................Tahiti Ketch 30's, Flicka 20's, Rawson 30's, Gulfweed 31's, Nicholson 31's, Bingham 24's, 26's, 28's, Mariah 31's, Dreadnought 32's, Falmouth 22's, Southern Cross 28's, 31's, Albin Vega 27's, Dana 24's, ........I feel a little bit better now...but we all know there are more .....and we as sailors owe homage to them all. You know... today I went to West Marine started sifting through the current edition of one of the big sailing magazines and the feature article was about this month's must have ULTIMATE cruising boat an Oyster 62...WHOA Dude!!....look this thing up....its ...AWESOME.......I just hope for the family that buys this boat and is able to take it cruising that deep in its magnificent bosom beats the heart of an Alberg 30 !..............Take care ya'all
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