The fog

"Like a ship at sea, I'm lost in a fog

My mind is hazy, my thoughts are blue

Guess I'll always be kinda

Lost in a fog without you

It was sunny every day

The sky was fair above

But you took the light away

The day you took your love" 

      - Lost in a Fog by Ella Fitzgerald

After all that happened, I maybe really need some time out. Some ME-time, to gather my thoughts, to just get around all the stuff that happened. To be honest, sitting down, and writing, pushing through that writers block, is a first step, and now, with blog post number five I finally start feeling better, and more connected to my creativity. I missed that.

Yesterday I tried another approach, some lonely kayaking, in the morning fog, through Sailors Cove all up t the north of Second Norway. It was indescribable. Calm, fresh, I could really feel the frost biting my cheeks, the fog getting into my clothes, getting them slightly wet, while I was enjoying all the last colours of this wonderful autumn. An autumn that will be over soon, a little bird told me.

But after the kayak ride, I needed more, so I decided, to go out in my Schokker, a boat I haven’t sailed in a long time, and give her a run, all the way up to the Rene Marina. I don’t know how to put it but, this being alone, just enjoying the beauty of this second life I am happy to call mine, put everything back in a perspective and helps seeing the bigger picture. Plus, it helped me t get out of my bed, opening my notebook, and keep writing, until I don’t have to think twice, for a single word.

A new old boat...

I am madly in love, you say this is old news? Yah probably, but i never told you this lovestory. it began at Dex, almost a year ago, when i saw this beauty for the first time.

A Schokker, made by Rene Marina. This is an old dutch boat, north-sea usage, mostly military in the 1800s, later rescue- and fisher boat. I saw this boat at Dex, and lost my heart, but I never got her… untill now. Yesterday I couldn’t resist any longer, and I baught this beauty, after over an hour of demo-driving.

I like the way you have to reset the rudder, just like with a real boat. The fact that you dont have any color indicators how to set the sails, was hard for me in the first place, but soon I got used to doing the math of windangle/2 = boomangle for the perfect wind.

I have to admit that I struggled badly with the dynamic cam, and with the fact that I always have to stop the dynamic cam after resitting on the boat, but this is just a thing I probably just have to get used to.

It is a perfect boat for family trips or a hangout with friends, plus it is modify, and that makes my heart race, cuz you know I mod just everything!

If you are into old and antique boats, this princess is a must have!!! My beauty is names XQuisite - in honor of both of her owners cuz it was a team-buy, by me and my boyfriend Quron. Thank you <3