The varnish is gping on the cabin soul under the table which I pulled out and cutting down. Some of the floor slats were broken and I needed to epoxy them up and make them pretty. Nice satin finish on the floor, it looks nice.

i didn’t mean to start a flammable argument either. i meant what i said and i meant what i said. but i did not mean to pretend i am any more of a person or sailor than anyone here.
on the contrary, i came here with no sailing experience and not a stitch of the salty facts that so many sailors love to read about. i have learned that you know about 50% of what you know and 0% of what you hear. i came in search of my dream a year and a half ago with nothing and have achieved great feats due to people like Alex and Sam(Alex and Sam specifically, but many others have helped me along the way!).
If it were not for an awkward conversation on Halloween ’08 between Alex and I, we may not be friends and may not have influenced each other’s lives in that we have. the most important FACT that i have come to learn is that you can learn something from absolutely anyone, and nothing should be taken with a grain of salt.

Dean, i did not mean to insinuate that you figured any “real sailor” could afford ” this or that”. just that life is possible, and completely endurable without refrigeration. I know you seem to be a pretty self sufficient and competant captain, but not everyone rocks the same favorite song. …and judging from your response, i know you understand what i’m trying to hammer out.

garden:
I know that there’s nothing wrong with some frozen vegetables. i was merely stating that i didn’t think that Guin’ was “missing out” on anything that wasn’t a luxury and didn’t make up for via other venues. …supplementary vitamins–if need be- dark green vegetables, beans, fish, shrimp(which she claims to love), or fruit. I may be “weird Uncle Darrin”, and have never been a real “kid person”, but i have more respect for Guin’s intelligence than I do for a great many of my own friends.
i KNOW, that with this lifestyle, she will become an amazing, intelligent, diverse, and possibly multilingual little girl due to what Sam and Alex are possibly “putting her through”– my words, not yours–. and i am envious.
I just want you to know that Guin’ is seeing, doing, and accomplishing many things that i wish i had access to when i was a child. You know she is well loved and cared for, so i found it a little insulting to read that perhaps Guin’ was being treated unfairly. i am a bit of a drama queen, and I perhaps pondificated rudely, and for this i appologize. …i guess i’ve become less of “weird uncle Darrin” and more of “protective Uncle darrin”….
what has happened to me?!

For those who were asking about my blog URL, i will post it soon. i haven’t really posted on it in a while so i need to catch up on it and make it slightly relevant. I also dont’ have a camera, so i have to show with words… makes it a little difficult for a technical vocational high school graduate.

Alex: start a new Ship’s Log, entitled Redundancy Continuum! there are big fish blowing the water right beside me, and i don’t have a spear or fishin’ pole in my hand! i suck!

-darrin

Humbled, Dean

Sadly to say I’ve done that for so many years and I’m trying everday to change my ways and to a new life of better health. Thanks for the chance to vent, and at the end of that first week, have a cool drink by the water and make a note to your self, hay that first week wasn’t so bad after all, Then first your second week, and on and on.

It’s also nice to hear from you Darrin, you also need to ask Alex, if he’d post a few pic’s of your boat, we all must partice what we preach…Enjoy the sun, I wish I was there with you all.

Rodney,

sorry mate but the people I consider “real boaters” sailors, or world cruisers don’t have refrigeration. I’m sure well get it but its a lot lower on the priority list then a drifter ( light air sail) or additional fishing gear.

Garden,

I would have to agree with Darrin. Guin eats much healthier then she ever would with a refrigerator. She occasionally gets ice cream as a treat when we are out but we don’t believe that dairy and sugar are “healthy” additions to her daily diet. Fresh vegetables, fish, beans, are much more important. Guin has powdered organic soy milk with her cereal and prefers room temperature water to water with ice.

Sam and I don’t believe it’s “fair” to raise a child in this public school venue. I just learned yesterday that my 15 year old niece just got out of a 3 month stint in drug rehab and attends AA, she’s 15! She was in a good school system. Guin gets very attentive care nutritionally and educationally.

The American diet is the worst I’ve ever come across. It seems every nation in the world eats better then we do. We have more obesity and heart disease then any other nation I’ve visited. We are a deep fried, hi-fructose corn syrup, dairy consuming nation. Guin is also a vegetarian (by choice) and doesn’t crave hot dogs and burgers like other kids. After being out of the country for 5 years I was appalled and shocked by the amount of fast food restaurants here, I had forgotten that there is a McDonalds, Burger King, Wendie’s, Arby’s, and Taco bell on ever corner. This is not food, it is processed garbage. It also shocks me to see how much frozen food is being purchased at the super markets. If we are the richest country in the world, how is it we don’t have the time to cook well for our families?

Enough about food, I need to get some varnish on the boat before I go to work at noon.

Sail far.

– Alex

Peace, love and coconuts with maple syrup,
Dean