Clueless...

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...