Get yourself a 30-footer and go!

Myself | November 11, 2013 | Matt Bracken

[Travis McGee]

Yep, God speed and good luck to them. If we account ourselves well when the time comes, it will be very worth while.

[Travis McGee]

Thanks, Osage!

[Travis McGee]

Start with the beer and the bimini, you will need them while arranging the wind vane.

[Travis McGee]

Wow, high praise, thanks!

[Travis McGee]

You can sail from Florida to South America with nothing but a compass. That’s enough, more is better but not required.

[Travis McGee]

Go find one particular pebble in the desert. I’ll give you a picture of the pebble, and you have one hour.

That’s finding a boat on the ocean.

[DuncanWaring]

That one’s easy - “Straight south” (with maybe a detour around Cuba).

[Travis McGee]

Amen. And I can’t believe it’s been 40 years since Barbados and Martinique etc.

[Travis McGee]

Thank you, I hope to get back to the next novel soon.

[Travis McGee]

My new motto is,

“Now all my thrills are vicarious.”

That’s why I write stories.

[DuncanWaring]

... head to port ...

Took me a few seconds to realize that didn't mean "proceed to the harbor".

[Travis McGee]

Oh, those Maine islands! We passed some beauties on Penobscot Bay last July, during the vacation of a lifetime with a few days spent onboard the 3-masted schooner Victory Chimes!

But even a morning in a kayak brings back your connection to the sea, I’ll bet!

[Travis McGee]

Or pour a few shots of rotgut rum over their gills. Gives them a happy goodbye blast and they never move a muscle.

[Travis McGee]

“Bathroom facilities to the left side when facing forward.”

[PilotDave]

Matt, you may take full credit for that line. I stand on the shoulders of a giant. Matt Bracken is an American treasure. Anybody who hasn’t read every word he’s published is a cityfied unamerican moronic pansy.

[CJinVA]

The gulfstar is a solid boat. I did a lot of work to it over the past couple years. New rigging, roller furling, canvas, full batten loose footed main and mizzen, new genny. I like the ketch rig. Easy to sail. I single handed it all the time. I’d keep it but I got hurt last spring and have a hard time sailing now. That’s why I’m getting the trawler.

A lot of great deals out there now. A friend of mine just picked up a 1997 Hallberg-Rassey 46 for $180k. The boat sold for $340 two years ago.

[woofie]

Thanks

Im thinking my wife and I might need a bigger boat in order to get along... Is the Queen Mary available?

[woofie]

I could trade ya my Harley and an old Volvo

[Travis McGee]

I’m blushing.

[spodefly]

I am the 3%.