Wednesday, October 27, 2021
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Saturday, October 16, 2021
Chasing the Dream
You get a lot of time to think when you are alone at sea on a small boat, with few distractions but the water rushing by, and the stars at night, standing on deck alone and insignificant on the wide ocean, naked, peeing into the full moon... The downhill run to Papeete is a classic one, sailing right into the southern cross, It took 8 days to sail from the Marquesas to Tahiti, and in that time I experienced every emotion in the rainbow, from sheer terror, to sadness, to un-controllable mirth. I purged every dark corner of my mind, with nowhere to run from the truth, and came away cleansed, lighter, and much much stronger.
I realise now that I have shed almost all my fears. I am not afraid of dying, and I am not afraid of being alone. Actually, my life is wonderfully streamlined when I am left to my own devises. I am not afraid of being judged. I am not afraid of what I do or don't have. My idea of success is not based on money, but rather on the ability to wake up and say "yes, let's go to the waterfall today". The idea that freedom IS the end goal, and that money is just a means to that end, and that if you are not careful to make the distinction, the chasing of money can actually take away from that freedom--the means becomes the end. By that measure, my life so far has been a smashing success, and the only thing that scares me anymore is letting this crazy, beautiful life pass me by. No matter how hard I try, I will only have a fraction of the adventures I would like to. I will only see so many sunsets, I will only hold so many beautiful women in my arms.
Saying yes becomes more urgent as we get older, yet harder and harder to say. Life thunders by, and dreams are crushed beneath the wheels of time. I find that not being afraid is a tremendous freedom in itself. I will remember to say yes, more than just 'whenever possible', for it is at these times when I am most alive.
Who said, our greatest fear is not that we are weak, but that we are powerful beyond measure?' That hits the nail on the head. I don't know where this crazy, stormy, leaky boat of a life is headed, but I sure know that its beautiful out here under these stars with dolphins chasing my stern...
Super Maxi Bonehead Moves
Heading home from Yucatan to a storm on Sunday. Sailing should be in the mid twenties and a sailors dream. Go full screen!
Songs About Sailing - The Definitive List
- 4 Preps - 26 miles
"Aaliyah - ""Rock The Boat"" "
Al Stewart - Life In Dark Water
Arlo Guthrie - Sailor's Bonnet
Avalon - Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music
Basil Poledouris- The Dinghy Race (Senta) .
Beach Boys - Kokomo
Beach Boys - Sail On Sailor
Beach Boys - Sloop John B
Beca Boys - Sail on Sailor
Billie Holiday - A Sailboat in the Moonlight
Blondie - The Tide Is High
Blue4s Image Ride Captain Ride
Bob Dylan- Shelter from the Storm
Bobbie Darin - Beyond the Sea
Burl Ives - Away Rio
Burl Ives- Leave her Johnny leave her
Burl Ives- What do you do with a drunken sailor
Buster Poindexter- Hot hot hot
Carbon Leaf - Home
Cat Steven - Longer Boats
Cat Stevens - Angel Sea
Cat Stevens- The Wind by
Cecilio and Kapono (from Hawaii) - Sailing
Chris De Burgh - Sailing Away
Christie Moore - The Voyage
Christopher Cross - Chris Cross
Chubawumba -Tubthumping
Come Sail Away - Styx
Commodores - Sail On
Cowboy Junkies- White Sail
Craig Toungate-Yo Ho, Ho (and A Bottle of Rum)
Crash Test Dummies -Swimming in your Ocean
Cream—Tales of Brave Ulysses
CSN - Shadow Captain
CSN - Southern Cross
CSN&Y - Lee Shore
CSNY - Wooden Ships
David Gray - Sail Away
Dire Straits - Down To The Waterline
Dire Straits - Singlehanded Sailor
Doors - Land Ho
Doors—Crystal Ship
Double - Capt. of Her Heart
Duran Duran - Rio
Ella Fitzgerald- Smooth Sailing by
Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding
Enya - Caribbean Blue
Enya - Orinoco Flow
Enya - Sail Away
Eric Bogel' - Safe in the Harbor
Eric carmen - Boats Against The Current
Eric Wakely - Sailing Solo
Every Mother Son -Come on Down to my Boat Baby
Frank Sinatra - Summer Wind
Freddy McGregor - Big Ship Sailing
Garth Brooks - The River
Glenn Yarborough - Chanteyman
Glenn Yarborough - I Could Have Been A Sailor
Goldfinger - 99 red balloons
Gordon Bok - Isle a Haut
Gordon Lightfoot - Ghosts of Cape Horn
Gordon Lightfoot - In the Lee of Christian Island
Gordon Lightfoot—Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald
Grand Funk Railroad - I'm Your Captain / Closer To Home
Grand Funk Railroad -Closer to my Home
Grateful Dead - Ship of Fools
Grateful Dead- Franklins Tower
Grateful Dead- Lost Sailor
Great Big Sea - A Boat like Gideon Brown's
Great Big Sea - Boston & St Johns, Great Big Sea - Wave over Wave
Great Big Sea - Captain Kidd
Great Big Sea - Lukey
Harry Belefonte- Day Oh (Banana Boat song)
Harry Belefonte- Jamaca Farewell
Ian Matthews- keep on sailing -
Jack Johnson- A Pirate Looks at Forty
Jack Johnson- The Horizon has been defeated
James White -Splendid Adventure
Jeff Beck -Blue Wind
Jefferson Starship—Santiago, Wooden Ships
Jerry Jeff Walker - Pissn' in the Wind
Jim Morris - Key Wasted
Jim Morris - Laid Back
Jim Morris -The Sailor Race
Jimi Hendrix - Drifting
Jimmy Buffet - Lovely Cruise
Jimmy Buffet - Take It Back
Jimmy Buffet - changes in latitudes
Jimmy Buffet - Fins
Jimmy Buffet - Landfall
Jimmy Buffet - Margaritaville
Jimmy Buffet - mother ocean
Jimmy Buffet - one particular harbor
Jimmy Buffet - Pirate
Jimmy Buffet - Sea of heartbreak
Jimmy Buffet - Landfall
Jimmy Buffet -Boats to Build
Jimmy Buffet Sea of Heartbreak
Jimmy Buffet- Son of a Son of a Sailor
Jimmy Buffett - Boats To Build (with Alan Jackson)
Jimmy Buffett - One Particular Harbor
Jimmy Buffett - The Captain and the Kid
Jimmy Buffett- Lovely Cruise
Jimmy Buffett- Mother Ocean
Joan Baez—Spanish Boots
Joe Cocker- Sail Away
Kalapana - Midnight Sailing
Kenny Chesney - French Kissin' Life
Kenny Chesney -Be as you are
KT Tunstall - Silent Sea
Leadbelly-Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On
Lindisfarne - Fog on the Tyne
Little Feat - Sailin' Shoes
Little River Band - Cool Change
Loggins and Messina - Vahevala - Loggins and Messina - Sailin' the Wind
Looking Glass-Brandy
Loudan Wainwright's III - Good Ship Venus
Luka Bloom - Sunny Sailor Boy
Lyle Lovett - If I had a boat
Maggie reilly- Silver on the tree / angel tears
Mark Knoppfler and James Taylor - Sailing to Philadelphia
Mary Black - Columbus
Men at Work - Down Under
Michelle Shocked - It must be Luff
Moon Mulican - I'LL SAIL MY SHIP ALONE
Morcheeba - The Sea
Mountain - 'Nantucket Sleighride'
"Nick Cave -""The Ship Song
Otis Redding - Dock of the Bay
Paul Simon - American Tune
Peter Frampton - sail away
Peter, Paul & Mary - Big Boat
Phil Ochs—Scorpion Departs, Thresher
Queen - Sail Away Sweet Sister
Randy Newman' - Sail away
Rod Stewart - Sailing 4x
Roger & the Goosebumps - 'Gilligan's Island’ to the tune of 'Stairway to Heaven'
Roger Whittaker - The Last Farewell
Ry Cooder/Chieftains- Coast of Malabar
Salty Dick - A Matlow Told Me
Salty Dick - Christopher Columbo
Salty Dick North Atlantic Squadron
Salty Dick - Priests and Nuns
Salty Dick -The Whores of Sailortown
Sandy denny and the strawbs - sail away to the sea
Sonia Dada- Sail Away
Split Enz - Six months in a leaky boat
Stan Rogers - Flowers of Bermuda
Stan Rogers - Fogarty's Cove
Stan Rogers - The Bluenose
Stan Rogers - The wreck of the jeanie c
Stan Rogers - White Squall
Stan Rogers -Barrett's Privateers
Stan Rogers -Make and Break Harbor
Stan Rogers -The Mary Ellen Carter
Stan Rogers,- Sailing Down to Ol' Maui
Sting - Valaparaiso
Sting - Why Should I Cry for You?
Sting The Wild Wild Sea
Styx - Come Sail Away
Taj Mahal - Fishin Blues
The beautiful South - I sail this ship alone
The Doors - Land Ho!
The King Singers - The Skye Boat Song
The Muppets (from Muppet Treasure Island) - Sailing for Adventure
Toni Childs - Where the Ocean
Van Halen - Feels So Good
Van Morrison - Into the Mystic
Wagner -Ride of the Valkyries Wagner
Borrowed from Messing About in Sailboats
Go to the 8 minute mark for the sailing.