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Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Getting Ready To Move Offshore
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Goin' Cruisin'
After 15 years of living aboard Shearwater with wife, Diane and dog, Holli I am now about to be "Alone Again....Naturally" (Thanks, Gilbert). The plan had been for me to get a smaller boat (which I did....Frodo) and cruise south, starting with Baja. The wife, now my ex, wanted to stay here and work and live on the boat, but, instead decided to buy a big power boat to live on and hopefully invite her aging mother to live on as well. I give her points for her 12 years of living on Shearwater and for at least staying on the water. Also, big points to her for seeing and facing reality, taking care of herself and being a real friend. It really is the nicest gift you have ever given me, my Dear Girl. Sincerely. Thanks. So, now I push out old Shearwater into the Pacific with older sails, rigging and aged mechanical systems, to live "on the hook" along the coast and possibly find a home on Catalina Island. I look forward to clean water and many ocean passages & adventures up & down the Southern California coast. The Journey begins Monday, August 2, 2004.

Posted by coverunner at 9:12 AM PDT
Updated: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 9:37 AM PDT
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Wednesday, July 28, 2004 - 2:24 PM PDT

Name: James van Etten
Home Page: http://www.london-morning-paper.co.uk

Certainly a hard decision skipper, I feel upon reading the lines that it wasn't your own, it was a following of the heart. You, a gentleman, have provided the healing needed that your ex-wife will cherish for the rest of her life. You my dear friend are a restless soul, that's why you lived on the boat it never stood still. You have started a new chapter - may I wish you all the best, good luck, good luck and more good luck, Peace and love from London. May we one day meet on the high seas of time. I can't write more - emotion has overcome me. Cheers Mate - Jim

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Thursday, July 29, 2004 - 3:23 AM PDT

Name: Noel Diotte

Thanks, James!

You've been a good friend and we've never met. I know the picture and my tone paints a sad picture. But, it's a new beginning...thumbs up. Change is always hard...but, when one door closes, another opens as they say.

Nothing lost really. The door remains open to my ex-partner, she is a real friend...a rare woman. It will be nice to know she's there.

If anything, it's a bit confusing to find myself suddenly free and without all the ill-will usually associated with such partings.

I'm certain to sort it out under the impending full moon of my Moon-day trek up the coast to Paradise Cove.

And by the way, I found an old compass on Frodo (which I sold to a happy 20-something guy for $500.00) and on the bottom was etched the name of the original owner and Frodo's real name, "RESTLESS 1".

Noel

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