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Latest update from webby is that he got all the way to the Canaries, was *just* about to cross the Atlantic and then thought - nah, stuff it.
I reckon this is fabulously stylish! And makes a refreshing and much-needed change which should be applauded by us all.
See, there are loads of transat sailors every year, and a significant proportion of them must be desperate to try and get out of the self-inflictd let's-sail-the-atlantic rat race. But - unlike Webraft- they just haven't had the guts or gumption to leap off their wretched treadmill and say Hey - on second thoughts this is gonna be a bit rubbish actually - let's do something else. Previously, there simply wasn't an example to follow, a beacon to guide the way. So instead, everyone felt compelled to go through with the slavish day after twisty rolly day of sailing with the same scenery.
Webby has broken free of these shackles and now stands as a beacon to those dare to think it through twice. Or more than twice, and then again at the last moment too.
Actually, I suppose it's perhaps more than a bit telling that events like the ARC charge up front, don't they, hm? They clearly know for certain what Webby has only guessed at. By contrast, a nice restaurant has the confidence that you will have a lovely time and will gladly pay at the end. And does anyone who does the ARC ever give tips to the orgainsers, hm? Never, i bet. Looks like webby has made the right call: sailing the atlantic is worse than being in the very nastiest of nasty restaurants, for a whole month.
Webby has a whole raft of excellent personal reasons not to go all the way to the caribee, including the fact that getting back from the Atlantic is iffy and expensive, there are business things to be done back home, the health insurance situation, and of course, he doesn't much fancy it and/or can't be doing with the hassle.
Yeah, he also mentions some rather less fab reasons such as the possibility of getting mugged in the caribbean (?) - which would obviously never happen in the UK, ever. But he also misses Scotland too, which is fair enough, although it just goes to show that he obviously isn't Scottish as real Scots hardly ever seem go back once escaped.
When i originally heard he hadn't gone i wondered if perhaps lots of wellwishers had gathered and all were shouting "Fair Winds!" from the shore and since that's the name of his boat he might have thought ooer flippinek they're calling our boat back! We must've forgotten something v serious. actually i suppose that could happen again and again, each time a different person, and each time webby comes back in and says yes, what is it? But it wasn't like that at all.
So anyway, from now, instead of the not-actually-too-gruelling downwind trip to the caribee and back over atlantic via bermuda and azores praps returning in a June/July crossing... Webby is taking the not-much-easier-at-all route of 1000nm north/windward to the azores and then back to scotland, perhaps quite soon. Ooer. Or sometime, perhaps not just yet.
Actually i nearly thought bollox to writing this post but i did it anyway. Just out of mindless habit I suppose. Next time i'll have more careful think about it first. I bet i wd be able to do something a bit more useful. And the post isn't that good anyway, really. See?! - Webby's example is having a positive effect on me as well!
Seriously - good luck to Webby and crew on Fairwinds - hope to see you again soon
I reckon this is fabulously stylish! And makes a refreshing and much-needed change which should be applauded by us all.
See, there are loads of transat sailors every year, and a significant proportion of them must be desperate to try and get out of the self-inflictd let's-sail-the-atlantic rat race. But - unlike Webraft- they just haven't had the guts or gumption to leap off their wretched treadmill and say Hey - on second thoughts this is gonna be a bit rubbish actually - let's do something else. Previously, there simply wasn't an example to follow, a beacon to guide the way. So instead, everyone felt compelled to go through with the slavish day after twisty rolly day of sailing with the same scenery.
Webby has broken free of these shackles and now stands as a beacon to those dare to think it through twice. Or more than twice, and then again at the last moment too.
Actually, I suppose it's perhaps more than a bit telling that events like the ARC charge up front, don't they, hm? They clearly know for certain what Webby has only guessed at. By contrast, a nice restaurant has the confidence that you will have a lovely time and will gladly pay at the end. And does anyone who does the ARC ever give tips to the orgainsers, hm? Never, i bet. Looks like webby has made the right call: sailing the atlantic is worse than being in the very nastiest of nasty restaurants, for a whole month.
Webby has a whole raft of excellent personal reasons not to go all the way to the caribee, including the fact that getting back from the Atlantic is iffy and expensive, there are business things to be done back home, the health insurance situation, and of course, he doesn't much fancy it and/or can't be doing with the hassle.
Yeah, he also mentions some rather less fab reasons such as the possibility of getting mugged in the caribbean (?) - which would obviously never happen in the UK, ever. But he also misses Scotland too, which is fair enough, although it just goes to show that he obviously isn't Scottish as real Scots hardly ever seem go back once escaped.
When i originally heard he hadn't gone i wondered if perhaps lots of wellwishers had gathered and all were shouting "Fair Winds!" from the shore and since that's the name of his boat he might have thought ooer flippinek they're calling our boat back! We must've forgotten something v serious. actually i suppose that could happen again and again, each time a different person, and each time webby comes back in and says yes, what is it? But it wasn't like that at all.
So anyway, from now, instead of the not-actually-too-gruelling downwind trip to the caribee and back over atlantic via bermuda and azores praps returning in a June/July crossing... Webby is taking the not-much-easier-at-all route of 1000nm north/windward to the azores and then back to scotland, perhaps quite soon. Ooer. Or sometime, perhaps not just yet.
Actually i nearly thought bollox to writing this post but i did it anyway. Just out of mindless habit I suppose. Next time i'll have more careful think about it first. I bet i wd be able to do something a bit more useful. And the post isn't that good anyway, really. See?! - Webby's example is having a positive effect on me as well!
Seriously - good luck to Webby and crew on Fairwinds - hope to see you again soon
