PACIFIC
PURA VIDA
All lines point to home
Following our afternoon watchkeeping shift during
a motor yacht’s delivery, the chief engineer and I lounged on the
aft deck off the coast of Central America. The temperature was getting
hotter so we consumed a lot of bottled water. The bottle’s brand
label sparked commentary; pictured on the label was a ship. I didn’t
see the reasoning to have an image of a ship behind the text when the
product was called “mountain spring water”.
The chief engineer said, “They say, in order
to find the source of the spring, one must sail the world.”
As I sail the Pacific, I reference more and more
to my past experiences and where I come from. Much of our reference is
cyclical, like how the spring water flows to the ocean, it evaporates
and rains in the mountains, and then the earth absorbs the water and it
surfaces from the spring again.
Whether it is the cyclical time lines in our lives
or the boat's spring lines that get thrown onto the dock, they are the
lines that guide us to home.
From
Handywoman's Companion:
4. Birthday
Wishes to a Little Swab
3. The Gift from Practical Boyfriends
2. Romanced By the One You Work For: meet Ti [Gallery]
1. A Yacht Workout: jumping rope
Sunset on the Pacific
Ocean, offshore of Mexico.
FEATURED
PROJECT:
Private Yacht—Pacific
Coast
[2007]
17 April 2007—Offshore
of Nicaragua, taking a break from work to reel in my catch of the day.
The Mahi Mahi was sashimi for dinner.
