Suggestion: Keep a journal, as well as a log

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El and Bill

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El and I have just had a delightful four hours, reading about cruising up Chesapeake Bay, with stops at Smith Island, St Michaels, Annapolis, and other delightful spots. We read about great shared evenings in the cockpit sipping sundowners with boaters anchored near us, and fine times at good seafood restaurants ashore with new boating friends or others we happened to meet again, anchored by chance near us, and whom we had met on our numerous cruises up and down the east coast.

All this from El's journal, recording our cruising live-aboard days.

So, remember -- someday you will probably be living ashore, older, and have time to remember (by rereading) those great days on your boat. Such pleasure flooded with fine memories of good times with good folks.

Keep a journal and those days will be alive with you and bring smiles and happiness.
 
Marie kept a daily journal, and I kept the log for the 8 years we lived aboard and cruised over 80,000 miles. Also we were so fortunate that our parents, and several good friends kept all of our letters, and gave them to us when we returned.
Thus the name "Thataway" of our second long distance cruising boat--She said we went "Thisaway" and my log recorded "Thataway".

Today, I suspect that might be been e-mails and face book! (Or a Blog.) A friend's son is now cruising the S. Pacific, inspired by our voyages--and it is fun reading their blog!

We also did videos, and a 3 professional slide shows which we gave after return--these are always run to run back and see.
 
Thanks for the reminders. I had done some journal entry last summer, however it was paper. I would like to do that on my Android Tablet this summer, and would like to entertain suggestions for a good Journaling ap.

Thank you again to El and Bill for being excellent role models.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

:embarrased :oops:
 
We all lost in love.
Life and death is just a dream
and we all belong to it.
Let it flow
and you will be a free anybody.
The book of our lives
has already
been written.

a sailor's poem, marina wall
Horta, Faial, Azores, 1999


Aye.
 
"The book of our lives has already been written"

Not in my belief system -- we are active participants in making choices that determine the role of the future -- in my opinion we are not just observers but participants.

And, as one who loves to study genealogy and observe the choices made by ancestors, it is clear to me how those choices freely and individually made, affected their future and mine. What a treasure it would be for me to find journals written by them documenting those choices they made. (why did that ancestor abandon all he knew - family, friends, culture -- and take a risky voyage across the Atlantic in 1710 to settle in the New World, where the language, culture, and environment was so different? ... where he had to clear the forest, build a home, plant the grape vine clippings he brought with him, start a vineyard and a new life?). And give me a life in America.

"Already written" -- nope, things happen over which we have no control, but I don't believe they are pre-ordained.

So, I journal for us to enjoy past events we might otherwise not remember -- and perhaps a descendant will enjoy reading them also and learn about those ancestors whose choices affected his/her life.
 
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