Maybe I'm just simple minded...

I get no shortage of emails to Boat Bits Central pointing out that going simple may be all well and good for the likes of someone like yours truly (apparently a simpleton/idiot of some talent), but that for most folks things are a whole lot more complicated... The world being a very complicated place.

Frankly, I simply don't buy that line of reasoning and if there is one thing that becoming older has taught me is that things, when you get down to the nitty gritty of basics, really are dead simple and the cloud of complication is all a lot of smoke and mirrors that you or someone else created.

Life really is simple, and if it's not, you're doing something wrong... Which is not to say that simple is always easy as sometimes it's damn hard work...

One of the reasons boat building, sailing, and cruising has such a lure to modern folk is that it is by it's very nature an exercise in simplicity. A black and white (no shades of gray) world where things make sense and that, dear readers, is known as the real world.

All you have to do to get with the program is to chart a course and go...

Listening to Jerry Riopelle do "So Young".

So it goes...