Battle lines being drawn, not just about guitars, and a cruising family in the news...
Reading the news about the rescue of Rebel Heart as it's gone viral is something of a head-thumper-against-the-bulkhead experience... The press and the general public simply does not have a clue.
Though, that being said, the comments to the article are very enlightening in a sorta/kinda depressing way.
The thing is, folks outside the cruising world don't have a very good idea about what cruising or living aboard boats is really like because "we", in general, are not very good at telling people about it. This blog included...
I expect the reason is we tend to, as a group, have something of a ghetto mentality in play so we really don't talk to people outside sailing or cruising about sailing or cruising.
We don't often actually talk all that much about a lot of pertinent points regarding sailing and cruising to folks into sailing and cruising either. The bulk of what we do talk about tends to be Pollyanna-ish at best. Which, I'm sure, is a big contributing factor to the high number of people who abandon cruising in their first year because the sailing/cruising life is nothing at all like their expectations.
Maybe that's something we could fix...
Listening to Quicksilver Messenger Service
So it goes...
Sunday, April 06, 2014
Clueless...
Posted by RLW at Sunday, April 06, 2014
Labels: Cruising, Cruising Culture