January 10, 2008

Marina checking in procedures

Checking procedures into marinas varies greatly from all your paperwork checked in minute detail, photocopied, entered onto paper forms, then entered onto computer to someone handing over a paper form for you to fill in yourself and nothing else even looked at and you never know which it will be until you begin. My question is though, what do they do with all this information, does it et sent somewhere, does anyone actually look at it and if they do what are they looking for and what will they do about it if they find it because by the time they do the boat has moved on. This part of our sailing life is the only remnant of daily bureaucracy that we’ve left behind and reminds me constantly of how quickly our view on life has changed. Our priorities now are provisioning, laundry, where shall I run today or is the wind in the right direction to get where we want to go next. The only conformity we need to worry about is what we set for ourselves. The memory of the stressful lives we led is slowly dimishing.

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