I have never considered myself an obsessive person, neither would anyone that has ever known me. I have never, EVER really strived to be the best at anything. I’m perfectly happy be slightly better than average at just about anything I do. This applies mostly to work, (ehem, if your Googling my name because my resume came across your desk, please ignore that last comment), but it also applies to my hobby as well.
I’m pretty sure it is due to what I can only describe as very dominant apathy gene. Not apathy in the uncaring way. Just the hazy lazy “meh, whatever….i’ll get to it one of these days” type of apathy. I know full well that this drives certain people that live with me a little crazy sometimes, but I can’t help it. And seriously, I’m gonna do something about it……….one of these days. :)
Over the last 2 years or so, I’ve noticed that i’m slowly becoming a bit obsessed with sailing. To lay it out for you in a nicely formatted and bullet pointed list:
- We live on a sailboat.
- On most weekends we will sail our boat to different places or just spend the day sailing around in Shilshole or Elliot Bay.
- On Wednesday night during the spring/summer/fall I race on a friends sailboat afterwork.
- Just about every saturday this month will be spent racing on his boat in one regatta or another.
- Alot of saturdays will be spent racing in September-November after the summer racing season is over.
- 2-3 week vactions up north to the San Juan Island every year on our boat.
- Boat show in town? Yep, we are there……both of them.
- I have a freakin blog about living on a sailboat
But the thing that made me think I may have a sailing problem is what I spend the 2nd and 4th sundays a month doing over on Green Lake:
Mine is the green one on the left. I’ve named her ‘Jollypeno’.
I’ve got a lot of hobbies. Probably too many. But sailing is definetly the one that consumes most of my time.
We race these little bastards on Green Lake in Seattle on the last Sunday of each month. North end of the lake.
Check out the website for more info: http://smyc.home.comcast.net/
I race the Victoria Class boats. They are fun, and relatively cheap to build, compared to other RC model boats. I built mine for around $200-$250 including radio.
This link to the Vicotoria RC site: http://www.victoriarc.org/
Anyway, that’s one of my many dirty little secrets. If you looking for a hobby and something to do on Sunday. Build a boat and come to Green Lake to race. We could use more competition. :)