I think I have too many hobbies

No, but I can see why you might ask although that rig is beyond my reasoning.

I would expect to see such a flybridge on a 22 with so many out there but that Tomcat is sitting down in Port Orchard at Kitsap Marine right now.

With the way chartplotters are evolving including wireless controls, I think we could all helm with a remote from anywhere we can stand or sit by spending some extra cash.
 
Aurelia, I'm tempted with that flybridge, but I think I'm saved by the fact that the older tomcats have a much different cabin top configuration. It would be more difficult to install a flybridge....but not impossible.

I forgot to add golf to my list of hobbies. I played yesterday with two of my friends who wonder why I don't have the time to play every day. Then I get an email from my Canadian friend about the rivers opening July 1 for trout. And crabbing opens soon. I simplified my life by downsizing the home, retiring to part time, and getting rid of years of accumulated stuff. Just can't seem to give up all the toys. But I hear that keeping active extends lifespan.
 
AH. Yes.

Bill & El;

I often wrote on a board "K.I.S.S." during my introductions without any reference to it. I often used this ice breaker introduction when I first met a class group when teaching in the Navy's Advanced Electronics School hoping someone would ask about its meaning. I still try to impart this when I can get away with it.

[Keep It Simple Students] ( make a slight pause between Simple and Students ) I have often been reminded by my closest friends to stop telling them 'how the clock works' when all they wanted to know was 'what time it was'. I am getting 'a little better', I think, at walking my talk.

Enjoyed this thread and glad to see I am not alone.

Art
 
I just did a double take when I viewed the 'Home' page and noted :o another 'Sea Angel' C-Dory with posted pixs in the album section..

It is registered in FL, not VA.

I was wondering if I had another hobby that I paid for and did not remember it!

WELCOME aboard 'Sea Angel'.

Art
 
I'm with El and Bill. HD Thoreau has been in my life for over 20 years. He's been stardust for 150 years but his written work is probably truer today than in his time. It takes real work to avoid accumulating "stuff'. We float in the same coves as the big yachts and I bet we have more fun. The cd is quiet enough to view nature without disturbing the critters. I don't even want a kicker or gen set as "more stuff" to maintain.
 
I own one boat I haven't seen in 14 years, another and a canoe I haven't seen in about 7 years, two cat rafts I haven't seen in at least 5 years. I am building a hovercraft in my garage (nearing completion after 5 years, but I misplaced the plans last week and am stalled out at present). I still manage to use my 22 Cruiser on a semi-regular basis, and occasionally my 18 Bayrunner and 16 Lund. But I don't have too many hobbies. It is the pregnant wife and two toddlers at home that create all the problems. :wink:
 
With all the stuff you've got going on, how in the world did your wife get pregnant? Wait, don't tell us, it's another hobby! :lol: :love

Find your hovercraft plans and stay in the garage until the kids all get out of school....

Congratulations on what sounds like a busy and happy life! :thup

Charlie
 
Tx Captain.

As you can tell I have a problem parting with any of my small watercraft, but the 22 Cruiser may have to go. I think it has some kind of male fertility thing going on. I am the second owner. The first was a retired biology professor from Fairbanks. He was 67 and had a 6 and a 1 year old at the time I bought the boat from him (I think that was the price of a thirtysomething wife). I will be 54 in a couple of weeks and I have a 5 yr old son and a 3 yr old daughter and another girl due in October. In addition to selling my C-Dory I think I should take your advice and spend the next few years in the garage - its that or a vascectomy or both. I have got to do something, as my plans for a Tomcat keep getting derailed.
 
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