This is not a problem for quitters. If your going to quit, then you are saying there is nothing more you can learn, and nothing more you can think of to try, and there is no one else that you can approach for new ideas. A quitter is a person that quits before exhausting all of the possibilities. So don’t advise others to quit. They are likely just better at solving problems than you are..
The journey is never ending. There’s always gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what’s right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment. –Antonio Brown
Do you enjoy solving problems? Then you need to build something that has never been built before. Make most of the parts from scratch. Buy other parts second hand and not in working order and then fix them. And invite others to join you and you’ll make friends too.
I think we are all born with the desire to try new things. How else would we learn to walk? And at some point school, work, colleagues, and even church and family press us into a mold that we did not select. People ask me why I choose Junk Sails, I tell them they lend themselves well to DIY construction and single handed sailing. But maybe it’s also because there are so few and they are so strange, and they fit the mold of my choosing.
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It was time to build in some redundancy for our power steering system on the boat. Which actually has nothing to do with steering but is used by our variable pitch controlled propeller. And many thanks to Dan Sparks and Mark Sims.
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” — George Bernard Shaw …and somedays, that is all you get. Thanks to Dustin, Dan, and Alexandria for hanging in there. It was fantastic to see the foresail up, even if it was put together wrong.
–Doug
Many thanks to Dustin and Arron. All three mastheads are on including crows nest, deck lights, and VHF antenna. We also put some pitch into the prop, started showing the Cummins 5.9 some love.
