Mas I dont want to get personal here - but are you also spending most of your time out on the boat "solo"
If so, dont worry, my wife has no interest in the boat (big or small) either.
only thing is I love being out there alone - it's heaven!
True words Manie, but there are a couple of legs, (Cairns to Samarai is my present concern), where shipping used to be fairly busy and a good lookout is demanded - You do not necessarily hear them coming and they sneak up surprisingly quickly at 20+knots...
Up to the Percy Islands I happily day-tripped, and beyond to Cairns appears to be similarly easy to break into 50 mile runs with quite a bit of flexibility.
I would love a mast and sails but $$$$$$$$ seem to be in short supply now...
'The time has come', the Walrus said, 'to think of other things of ships.........' and
Anonymous@Anonymous.net is in on the act, not so much as hacking but spreading the word "Dear Anonymous, - - The purpose of this message is to inform you about the Revolution: - - OCCUPY HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT IN LONDON ON NOVEMBER 5, 2012. - - OCCUPY CONGRESS IN WASHINGTON D.C. ON NOVEMBER 11, 2012. - - STOP WAR. - - CANCEL ALL DEBT. - - REDISTRIBUTE WEALTH." - there is more but this should give you the idea? - prepare your boats. and this link from Canada
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30079 - Oh well anti conspiratorial people should have a ball reading and refuting this lot, but I sort of look forward to the "forgiveness of debt"

and a bit of 'entertainment' watching the demise of the fraudulent banksters and associated thieves. - - - - One is allowed to dream and indulge in a bit of wishful hope for the restoration of ethical, moral, fair, sustainable, living society, is one not allowed hope? . . . (In the quote from anonymous I removed the para and inserted spaced double hyphens)...
The interesting thing is that 5 November is known as Guy Fox day when there was an, (failed), attempt to blow up the houses of parliament in London with black powder (gunpowder in the days of sailing ships... and 11 November - I know not of any other significance relating to USA unless it was the "Boston Tea Party"? - - That Canadian link purports to identify chapter and verse of the legal constraints on the good citizens of USA...
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