Comments on: Ten thousand hours http://www.mepsnbarry.com/ten-thousand-hours/ Mon, 02 Mar 2026 04:25:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Dave Z http://www.mepsnbarry.com/ten-thousand-hours/comment-page-1/#comment-3370 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:47:03 +0000 http://www.mepsnbarry.com/adventures/2009/02/ten-thousand-hours/#comment-3370 So is sailing the curse of the drinking class or drinking the curse of the sailing class or is sailing a subset of the working class?

LOL

Be well.

Dave Z.

]]> By: Barry http://www.mepsnbarry.com/ten-thousand-hours/comment-page-1/#comment-3367 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:40:38 +0000 http://www.mepsnbarry.com/adventures/2009/02/ten-thousand-hours/#comment-3367 No, there isn’t anything particularly dishonorable about spending more time working on boats than sailing boats. In fact, our plan is to become cruising sailors, and even then, not spend too much time actually sailing.

Right now, our ratio is about 2:1 working:sailing. I expect that many cruising sailors have a similar ratio. But the more important point ratio is a different one–I often said that I expected when cruising to spend 1~2 months per year sailing and 10~11 months per year hanging on the hook or tied up at dockside hanging out, meeting people, drinking, exploring new places and otherwise having fun.

So what I’m aspiring to is not a 10:1 sailing:working ratio….but something more like a 2:1:10 or 1:1:10 sailing:working:drinking ratio!

]]> By: Calvin R http://www.mepsnbarry.com/ten-thousand-hours/comment-page-1/#comment-3366 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:25:28 +0000 http://www.mepsnbarry.com/adventures/2009/02/ten-thousand-hours/#comment-3366 I certainly understand the concept, but I have a question: Is there anything dishonorable about becoming a boat-builder as well as a sailor? My own analogy here is cycling. I prefer to ride, but, given the state of my finances, I have to earn my ride by doing my own work.

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