Blog Initiation
Well here it is, Blog post #1, really an introduction:
If you’re here for the boat things: It’s a 1985 Catalina 30, hull #3985. Whoa, that’s a big number, who knew sailboats were that popular? Fact is this particular model is one of the most successful and popular production sailboats of all time, especially for its size. Long before I was born, sailing heyday occurred. Think the 70s, a little into the 80s. Building materials were cheap, baby-boomers liked the hobby, sailboat companies produced a lot. My parents learned to sail and race sailboats on Lake Ontario. When I was a few years old I remember crying and screaming every time I was hit with water spray while being sailed in a Flying Scot (19 foot sailboat) on pleasant California lakes. What a baby. That boat was sold when I was still a little kid, and it wasn’t until I was 19 I got the sailing bug. I bought a 13 foot boat that was great to learn on - (Thanks mom. Thanks dad.) Sold that, then got a 16 foot catamaran and learned more skills, and wanted more boat. I purchased this in September of 2012, moved aboard - as planned for months and anticipated for years - during November of 2012.
At this moment of typing, it’s now been about one month of actually living on A Cenoura. I freaking love it, thanks for asking.
It’s been raining a lot and cold and windy here in Southern California and weekends lately provide too much bad weather or too little wind for me to enjoy sailing since I actually moved on. I had a handful of fun day-sails between September and November, though. Good thing is, weekends can’t be crummy in California forever, and I look forward to adding photos, videos, fun stories, trials, tribulations and learning experiences here.
Boats continuously lend themselves to need attention. There are so many systems and parts and pieces on a boat, all fighting the harsh environments of an ocean and 365 days a year of any kind of weather, it’s enough to ruin anything. Adding to that fact, the circumstance that I live on this awesome fiberglass buoy with sails and a stick, will mean that I’m putting a much greater load of pressure on the systems that were undoubtedly not designed to be used every day when the sailboat was being handmade 27 years ago for a good-weather-weekend “coastal cruiser” customer in mind.
If you’re here because you know me or find this interesting and want to know how it’s all going as it’s going on, but don’t talk to me everyday like my family does: A huge welcome, aloha, hi, howdy-do and thank you for checking it out so far! Some people say life is a roller-coaster, in that sense, I plan on keeping all of my shared content for the world (potentially) to resemble when my life is at the peaks of that roller-coaster. Lucky for me I’ve been privileged to have opportunities such as growing up in safe places, going to a college, being employed, making good enough decisions to get me where I am right now, and genuinely having an appreciative and open mind through it all. Truth is that the so-called roller-coaster’s pattern only dips into a trough rarely and shortly, which is good for my audience as well as good for me. Sometimes it’s all about perspective.
Maybe just my mom will follow this, maybe 20 friends, maybe I’ll link it to Facebook when I’m proud of something I did and get a one-hit-wonder blog post, who knows. But I know at least I’ll come back to it for as long as it lasts and I surely want to be reminded of the good stuff. Whatever else goes on in my life flakes off in time anyways. I may drop a sentence or two using my sense of humor if something unfortunate is truly worth mentioning, for the sake of entertainment.
So that’s basically my attitude. Everything else from now is how I interpret events and show it to you.