The end of the world with a motor sailboat

I told you about my island last week at the end of the world.

You will not be surprised if I tell you that husband decided that you needed a boat. However, to go on an adventure … For example, as if taking 16 hours to get back in touch with the crossbar civilization was not enough!

Finally … Similarly, husband finds a used sailboat, out of expensive, cheap.

As any couple requires their share of compromise, I told them, go ahead, it’s your project, your money. In addition, And that’s where I was embarked in the patent …

But sometimes, boarding the delusions of others makes us dream …

The other end of the world

Husband started by thinking of buying a cheap sailboat in Ottawa. Consequently, then dragging it across the country (4,450 km) to our island … Furthermore, calculation end world motor sailboat imposed by Madam, $ 2200 of petrol plus the rental of a pick-up were not worth it.

So husband found a beautiful case of “experienced handyman” not far from Victoria. Nevertheless, The light at the top of the mast and the reel are broken. But Bill on the island next door knows how to repair everything!

So we leave from our island at 6:15 a.m. in the morning, a daycare schedule requires. The autarky of voluntary simplicity with its limits. first stop at the Canadian tire, get an additional rescue jacket, a horn and distress rockets, compulsory, it seems.

Then go to the city center to pay the boat. Lifting at dawn obliges, the keys to the car are lost. I thought I threw them into the garbage cans at the same time as the bag from Tim Horton’s (yes. I know, to the devil voluntary simplicity).

Keys found before end world motor sailboat seeing an unexplained and recurrent puncture on our 1999 Jeep Cherokee.

Visit from a distant suburb, buy buoys found in Marketplace (yes, I know, the cursed giants of the web).

Finally, 3 hours behind the schedule, we arrive at the boat, moored in the middle of a bay!

Moult back and forth in kayak to load the cargo of petrol, covers (in case we spend the night at sea), some alcohol-free corona to survive stress … and I mentioned the call in panic with the former owner to understand how depart The engine?

Details…

It’s detail: husband bought a sailboat without knowing how to sail!

And without surprise. he put me A Charge To get out of the marina while he was on the phone with the ex-proprio to understand the boat.

Did you know that in a boat to turn left. you have to direct the rudder on the right and vice versa?

But the real delirium is that once left, we see the world differently. In slow motion, at 4 knots. Impossible to go faster.

The trip to the point will have lasted 6 hours. Fortunately, the sun is set at 9 p.m. end world motor sailboat at the moment. And having the luxury of embarking on small delusions is priceless. It creates memories. And above all, it puts into perspective the rest of life, stress and tensions.