[PUP] Wall Street worries? - go cruising!

[Truelove39 at aol.com]

>From Practical Sailor:

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On the topic of money: The news coming out of Wall Street called to mind an
article I read a few years after the economic meltdown in the late 1980s. The
story documented a familybs low-budget circumnavigation.

The underlying  theme of the storybcruising doesnbt have to be
expensivebwas
easily  recognizable. It was the same message the Hiscocks, the Pardeys, and
countless  others sailing writers have been trying to get across for decades.
What stood  out to me in this article was the punch line, uttered upon the
familybs return  to the U.S.. bRecession, what recession?b

Mostly by luck, the family had  shoved off when the nationbs economic
situation looked especially dire. When  they returned, the dust had settled,
jobs
were plentiful, and the economy was  booming again. Their tale was familiar to
me. More than a few of our fellow  cruising sailors during the early 1990s
were
young professionals whobd lost  their jobs in corporate downsizing. Rather
than fight for scraps in the shark  tank, they took their meager savings and
went
sailing. When they finally  returned to the workaday world, they had no
trouble picking up where they left  off.

So . . .  if the news out of Wall Street is getting you down,  look at it
this way. Itbs one more reason to go cruising b now. The way things  are
going,
you wonbt be missing much.

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Regards,

John
"Seahorse"



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