Would You Like a Coffee?

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   I love numerous comforts, reading, sailing and drinking coffee, chief amongst them. Last night while reading "Sailing Around the World on Two Oceans" by Mike Barzan , this passage sang to me: "I need a boat on which I can make and drink coffee". I suspect that prior to this time in his sailing career, Mike B had been sailing dinghies or open boats and being roundly tired of exposure, he just wanted a yacht on which he slip below and take shelter from the elements and enjoy a nice hot cup of coffee. I instantly recalled my sheer delight for the first time on a boat I built from a bare hull, being below while the Navik windvane steered, drinking coffee and looking out watching the waves pass by. When I read last night  I thought, what a wonderfully simple need to have regarding the design of one's next sailing boat.
   Mike B went on to build a Wharram Tane, not the boat he ultimately circumnavigated with, but a boat he joyously sailed for over seven years. I suspect that Mike B dropped the ball in latter years, because he circumnavigated in another much larger cat' that was fitted with an array of electronic devices, twin diesel inboard engines and a hot shower. Nevertheless I love him for giving me that notion which I will embrace for years to come. After all that's pretty much all I want from my next boat, enough room below to make and drink coffee, take shelter and a place to store some books (or my Kindle and a charging dock).

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