When you don’t have the disposable funds to pay people such as a sailmaker to fix your sails, the only option is to do it yourself.
The great thing that I’ve found with not having much money to spare is that you get to learn loads of even more valuable new skills.
Like the saying goes… “Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, teach him to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime.”
The thing with living on a boat you learn to be very self-reliant and self-sufficient, after all, in many cases it’s not like you can just call a guy or pop over to a store to get something fixed since it’s not always possible.
Certain things can be a bit difficult and frustrating because on many occasions you have sit there and just work it all out on your own.
But the great thing is, you’re always learning something, always adding sets of handy new skills to your internal resume.
You become quite a MacGyver, to say the least.
Not bad for a guy who used to sit behind a desk on an investment banking trade floor neatly dressed in a designer suit all day…
As you can see, boat life couldn’t be further from that…
Hardly ever wear a shirt or shoes anymore unless going to shore, hair always scruffy and salty, always got a smear of grease somewhere on your body at any given time, hands rough as tough leather and haven’t had a nice hot shower in weeks since you have the world’s biggest bathtub right outside.
You grow very accustomed to these sorts of things after living on a boat for almost two years already.
But the greatest thing is, I love it more than anything, even with all the challenges and struggles that come with it, because it’s cultivating an incredible amount of growth within me, and I’m loving this person I’m becoming through all of it.
Good times!
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Photo: Marky Warren using a “Speedy Stitcher” stitching tool to sew on a new patch of the UV strip of Sailing Yacht Rose Rambler’s headsail.
Location: Port Soller, Mallorca, Spain.
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