About…rather an all-encompassing word. This blog is About whatever happens to be interesting me at the moment.
The things that interest me though are:
Panama. In May, 2009, I received residency status in Panama. I am currently house sitting in Potrerillos Arriba (of course there’s also an Abajo) about 3,000 feet above the city of David (Dah VEED) not far from the Costa Rican border.
Boats, Ships and sailing upon the Sea. I grew up in Orleans on the elbow of Cape Cod and naturally developed a love of the sea. I also worked as a licensed captain for 18 years on yachts and small commercial craft, spent nearly three years on the French Riviera (Antibes) and sailed across the Atlantic in November 1991. In 1992 I bought a pretty little sailboat, a Kaiser26 that I named Nancy Dawson and took off for nine months and did a single-handed cruise from Fort Lauderdale to Mexico, Belize and the Rio Dulce in Guatemala and return.
Music. I am a child of rock & roll. I love good old-fashioned honky-tonk, barrel-house piano and living in New Orleans I got to see some of the best ivory-ticklers in the business. Professor Longhair, Dr. John, James Booker, Allen Toussaint, Tuts Washington and one of my all time favorites…Marcia Ball.
That’s what this blog will be about.
Better known to you as Professor B. Worm, I just found about your new blog from Joyce’s blog. Scanning just briefly, I gotta lot of reading and catching up to do!
I’m glad you’re aboard, Old Salt.
Mucxh applause and congratulations for a blog well done! I’ve been a subscriber of Shanyboats for years, and have been planning exactly your type of retirement for a number of years. The location have changed now and then, but the liveaboard something more than a shack and less than a yacht is the core. My problem is that Social Insecurity tells me that I won’t, as yet, have an income over $1K/mo so going to Panama might not work. CR might work. There are a couple other places I’m considering too.
Looking forward to each and every new post!!
Hello!
We also have a “Nancy Dawson” and spent 6 years cruising the Caribbean. She’s a 42′ Cheoy Lee Clipper, sitting on the hard in Florida since May. I think we feel the same way about our boat that you felt about your ND – we’ve come ashore and will miss her. She’s for sale.
Cheers,
Susan
http://cheoyleeclipper42forsale.blogspot.com/
http://captainrandy.blogspot.com/
The old saying that the two happiest days in a sailor’s life is when he buys a boat and when he sells it isn’t necessarily true. It all depends on the boat. I was ecstatic the day I bought my Nancy Dawson and totally miserable the day I sold her. On the other hand, I also owned a wonderful Boston Whaler that I had for sale and I was so happy when she went out the driveway attached to someone else’s vehicle you can’t imagine the relief. That’s also the day I bought my one-way ticket to Panama. As you can see reading through the blog I’m living in the mountains here but I can see the Pacific Ocean from the front porch. I hope the sale of your boat goes smoothly.
Congratulations! I have nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award, check it out here:
http://adventure-mum.com/2012/02/06/my-second-vers…-blogger-award/
Enjoy and have fun
You deserved it!
Sarah
I recently found your blog and love it! i built the cheapo seaswing stove in your archives. I have sailed the entire Caribbean island chain in a 26ft home built plywood sharpie in the 90s and now am restoring a Buccaneer 24 that i want to singlehand south again. I learned sailing in Boy Scouts in Portsmouth NH, run by a scoutmaster who loved boats. He had us boys build a 19ft banks dory and we boys sailed that all over Portsmouth harbor and as far as 5mi out. (before people thought adult supervision was always necessary.. we were on the buddy system)
I have done medical mission and volunteer work in 11 countries since 1980 and am looking for a place to expat and do something usefukl in my old age. Would love to correspond or are you in any yahoo groups? I am in lowcostvoyaging and also some others.
regards,
Andrew
ima_very_cool_cowboy@yahoo.com