Giving It All Up☹

[superheat6k]

As others have said we will all get to that horrible day, but perhaps you can still get on the water. Sorry that yours may have now arrived, and good luck to you that so days at sea may remain for you.

My view is that given the choice of where and when to have the heart attack or whatever God decides is our fate, far better entering Cowes on a Saturday lunchtime, and also with an opportunity of pissing off the Red Funnel captain, than say a Wednesday afternoon on the M4 in a rain shower and traffic jam, or at 5.45 in the office worrying about the cashflow.

Anyway I'm not mentioning my boat in my will, as it is needed prior to the reading to provide the pyre for my Viking funeral.

 

[Seajet]

Dougal,

sorry to hear your news, and I mean giving up boat ownership as secondary - still everything is relative, my mother has just been given a lot worse prognosis.

I absolutely commend the comments about keeping busy in some way, whatever you fancy; as a BAe photographer one of my less glamourous roles - but a privilidge considering the people - was photographing retirement parties.

I soon learned there were two distinct groups;

those who when asked " well Eric, what are you going to do now ? " replied ' well I've got relatives in Australia, a vintage car, work on the house and garden ' are still with us 30 years later.

The ones - usually really good people who had done a lot for UK Ltd - who replied ' I've worked bloody hard, I'm going to put my feet up ' had sometimes gone before I could get the prints to them.

There's a happy medium, anyway my very best wishes.

 

[KellysEye]

Sorry to hear about that we looked back on what we done sailing as been there done that.