saxonaxe
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Morning folks,
It is a year and eight months since I was last here. In that time, emails, passwords and addresses have been changed and long forgotten although I have continued to read the forum when I have had the chance.
I can log on again due to the kind help of Bopdude who answered an SOS message on another forum and made enquires with this Forum's staff on my behalf. I am really most grateful for that help, thank you.
Bare bones of the story are that for nearly 18 years I lived aboard my Ocean going yacht, just wandering the Mediterranean and Caribbean. Later I bought a static 'Mobile Home' used as a UK base when I wasn't at sea.
Contrast between the freedom of the open seas and small quiet anchorage bays and harbours that I was used to frequent , and the "crush" of living ashore in Sussex finally got to me. I'm a small shout off 76 and single handed sailing has changed vastly since I first sailed away. World events and mass movements of displaced people make sailing some areas a non starter. You can forget my old wandering grounds of Southern Sicily and the North African shore for a start...
The gods smiled on me though, as they have always seemed to, and I now live in the far South West of Wales surrounded by woodland and within a few minutes walking distance of the coast My old cruising boat is sold and I now have a small 21 foot boat for playing in locally.
Life is good. Still getting things squared away in the cottage, and yet to explore locally but I can see the stars at night in a black sky and the only sounds are the Tawny Owls chatting to each other once the sun has set.
Sax.
It is a year and eight months since I was last here. In that time, emails, passwords and addresses have been changed and long forgotten although I have continued to read the forum when I have had the chance.
I can log on again due to the kind help of Bopdude who answered an SOS message on another forum and made enquires with this Forum's staff on my behalf. I am really most grateful for that help, thank you.
Bare bones of the story are that for nearly 18 years I lived aboard my Ocean going yacht, just wandering the Mediterranean and Caribbean. Later I bought a static 'Mobile Home' used as a UK base when I wasn't at sea.
Contrast between the freedom of the open seas and small quiet anchorage bays and harbours that I was used to frequent , and the "crush" of living ashore in Sussex finally got to me. I'm a small shout off 76 and single handed sailing has changed vastly since I first sailed away. World events and mass movements of displaced people make sailing some areas a non starter. You can forget my old wandering grounds of Southern Sicily and the North African shore for a start...
The gods smiled on me though, as they have always seemed to, and I now live in the far South West of Wales surrounded by woodland and within a few minutes walking distance of the coast My old cruising boat is sold and I now have a small 21 foot boat for playing in locally.
Life is good. Still getting things squared away in the cottage, and yet to explore locally but I can see the stars at night in a black sky and the only sounds are the Tawny Owls chatting to each other once the sun has set.
Sax.