Mother's Day visit planned, super relaxed atmosphere and a working solar panel. Little
things make it very beautiful. With my eyes half closed, I look into the bright sun and hoist a fender onto the deck. We're sailing again. After three working days on the side, it's over again. Some consultations here and there, but that can be done digitally on board.
Also read: Living on a boat | This is Shem de Labric
Also read: Living on a boat | Would you do that?!
Also read: Living on a boat | Unwanted visit, bad nights and still freedom
A day or three-four on the road
We sail to my hometown. Some family lives there and we will have coffee with a good friend. Since it's almost Mother's Day, we take the opportunity
usage. We will be on the road for three or four days. A tourist route with both
there as back an overnight stay, somewhere to eat and of course that bunch of flowers to
ma.
"Do you know we've been on the road for two weeks now?" my friend asks as soon as I get to the wheelhouse
come in. 'Already?' I ask. He sails the boat away from the jetty as if he had never done anything else. I unzip one of the tent flaps and feel the summer breeze replace the mild gasoline vapor for fresh air. 'I'd rather call it 'indefinite time'' I think aloud as I fasten the now rolled-up tarpaulin.
I remain indebted to my captain's reply. In the meantime I move into the forward cabin
(that sounds like a lot, but it's only three steps) and have a conversation under the
engine noise is not possible. I plug in the charger and watch the screen
from my smartphone lights up. It's so obvious. Last week I was still swearing
and scolding my belly under the floor looking at a battery that said: do it yourself
but, now the whole power plan works as if it had never been different. What a joy.
Appreciating little things
It's so nice to see that small things can suddenly be great. A battery is
may be a costly purchase, but it does make us independent. But outside of it
material for: that beautiful nature in the morning and afternoon, that relaxed feeling in you
body, that rest in your head ... that's what makes it. But isn't that also obvious?
Also read: Living on a boat | This is Shem de Labric
Also read: Living on a boat | Would you do that?!
Also read: Living on a boat | Unwanted visit, bad nights and still freedom
