No more excuses...

I'm going to be following this as it develops, about those medical bills, and why Gulf seafood is still off the menu...

Adventure is just bad planning.

                                           -Roald Amundsen

There are a lot of definitions on what constitutes adventure but, for the most part, I'm reasonably sure that Mr Amundsen pretty much nailed it.

Matt Rutherford just finished up a non-stop solo circumnavigation of the Americas in a 27-foot Albin Vega.


Think about that for a moment...

The Albin Vega is obviously not the first or second choice that most people would make in choosing a boat for a single handed non-stop voyage of some 27-thousand miles. Fact is, it most likely would not be on anyone's short list of potential boats for the task.

You know, I'm pretty sure that there are more than a few folks who are really, really pissed off that Mr Rutherford was successful... In fact, there's this guy who's been planning and putting together the funds for the perfect 50-foot low/high latitude adventure cruiser with all the right gear and best electronics to make it all happen. You just have to know being beaten to the goal by a guy with a junky old bit of classic plastic has to hurt!

Here at Boat Bits central we get a lot of mail about what is the perfect boat or design but the fact is, it's been proved that you can pretty much do anything you can imagine on a less than perfect and affordable boat...

Quit thinking, lose the five or ten year plan, and simply go do it...

Listening to Buffy Sainte-Marie

So it goes...