One of the Lovesail members has kindly sent her sailing story so far, please read and enjoy…
Hi Young Salts, sailing enthusiasts
and all of you for whom the Sea is in your blood
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I hope that this blog will find you well and happy, bobbing on the water somewhere, warm and cosy.
It’s been a magical year for me and I hope that the same has been for you. You contributed to my happiness too, since you helped to set me off on my sailing dream. For that I sincerely thank you.
A year ago when my sailing campaign started I had no idea what it might bring. Since then I spent all of my 6 weeks holiday sailing in the UK, Baltics, Nordics and Canaries with the people I met for the first time. They all would be happy to have me back, we stayed friends, I plan to sail with them again.
I sailed more than 1000 nautical miles and had some memorable experiences. From the cosiness of the cockpit I was watching the death approaching fast. AIS was sounding an alarm for 18nm ferry that will be right upon us in 8 minutes. I thought I was going to die.
There were many good moments worth remembering too. I sunbathed everywhere and at every opportunity: in a cockpit, on a pulpit, along the beaches, while walking: dressed, topless or naked. We sipped wine under moonlight in secluded anchorages, walked in baking sunshine to deserted coves, and soaked ourselves in marina pools. I danced, sang and even smoked a cigar and then fell in love with Mr Sea. I am now suffering the consequences of it. I left my soul off the Portuguese coast and it is still rocking somewhere out there. I hope that one of the skippers will rescue her one day.
I was so inspired by my sailing experiences that I enrolled at the Coastal Skipper course in September. I have just passed the theory exam with the Cruising Association. I am thrilled and about to enrol on the practical course in February. I bought good thermal gear and will be sailing this winter – my preferred sailing time.
Not only that, I also asked for additional 5 weeks holiday, giving me 10 weeks in total for sailing trips. I will be over the moon and the whole of the solar system if this were to be approved! As well as looking for sailing opportunities I am now looking for someone who would be happy to assist me / coach me on my path to gaining the Coastal Skipper qualification.
On the personal side – ah there is a lot to tell and even more to hide! None of this is on LinkedIn or Facebook but inside my heart. Few men rocked my boat in the past years, providing entertainment and challenges, enriching my life. I remain happily single, surrounded with many loving friends, truly feeling free, loved, admired, adored, happy and fulfilled from within and besotted with Mr Sea. My heart radiates sunshine at his vast expanse.
My ambition is to become a Naked Skipperess and Temptress of the High Seas – some of the qualification for which I already have! Others I am in a process of acquiring… You wonder which. Having been brought up in Socialism and after “amassing a great wealth” in Capitalism I feel the time is ripe to shed it all off and to go for a different approach. It might take me some time ….
My sailing campaign continues in earnest. A little Contessa 32 is happily rocking somewhere, waiting for me.
Sending you many salty regards with my sincerest best wishes for A Happy New Year!
Hope you will stay in touch even after this rather open write up. Don’t get alarmed – my life happened in between those lines. Feel free to ask about my 2011 Year’s Highlights:
- February encounter with Mr Sea
- Cried in happiness with Adonis
- Portuguese horizon
- Stripy dress for BBC Waterways
- Medieval Wells-next-the-Sea
- In bed with Julian
- Steam engines and vintage car ride
- GEM vertical and horizontal thinking
- Racing in Plymouth Sounds
- Paper games with Jason
- Alicia on Swedish rocks
- Room with a 360 sea-view
- Birthday jazz
- Night-watch with oil-rigs
- VW dress for Sue’s wedding
- Fishy Skipper’s soul
- Watch death approaching by ferry
- Surreal deck cigar with wind farms
- Sailing into Gothenburg sunshine
- Under a blanket of Swedish stars
- Heads shower & hairy sensuality
- Copenhagen bus ride to jazz night
- Kalmar deadly grass bugs
- Coastal cycle rides
- Baltic rock & roll
- Pulpit sunbathing
- United with friends under olive trees
- The Tower’s cold black marble
- Lobos moonscape & moonlight
- Scared to death by black Mini
- Mothers embrace and love
- Tantric love in tears
- Holiday Romance
PS: On a professional side – With my usual enthusiasm and tenacity I found a position within a new division that was formed last year. I spent a year grappling with complexities of many global Client and Portfolio systems trying to make some sense of it all. It’s been a hell of a ride but one that I enjoyed much. Most of my colleagues by now have dropped off, while I am left to spell out global client data approach and then to work on its deliverables. What a bliss, I hope that I (and the financial world) will survive it! This is where I find myself: mastering client data and evangelically sticking with MDM mantra. I found my professional calling again, or so it seems.
Gypsy Venus
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