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[Shawn Boles]

Lynn:

Congratulations. Two things:

1. I saw Sintra in 199 or 2000 at New Bedford, Mass.  being hoisted out for
refit. She was beautiful!
2. Inspect the trailer thoroughly before you have your boat hauled to her
new home..

Regards
Shawn Boles
s/v Sweet Baboo

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Lynn Hoffman <drfood55 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Major Jones is Satisfied
>
>
> In case you missed the 70‘s, a Jones is a yearning. So let’s talk
> yearnings. I’m not going to ask you yours and I’m not telling you most of
> mine, because then we’d have to lie. You’d have to say something about
> Mahler and I’d have to respond with Adriâ. Pish and Tosh. What I want to do
> is take a risk and tell you about my major jones, no make that Major Jones.
>
>
> My Major Jones goes back to 1983. I crossed the Atlantic Ocean as crew in a
> 92 foot, steel-hulled wishbone ketch named Sintra. Life-altering blah blah
> blah, but there were two effects of that trade-winds cause. One was that I
> will forever be in love with everybody who made that crossing with me. The
> other is that I have wanted sailing ever since. Yes, wanted to move across
> water powered by wind. Waves, breeze, smell, difficulty, craft, strategy.
> Elementary.
>
>
> I’ve owned a couple of sailboats since then, one of them so beautiful that
> I could cry about it, but neither of them addressed, much less satisfied
> Major Jones. What the Major wants is a boat on which a man could sail out
> on big water, go to sleep and then wake up and sail some more. The Major
> wants a boat that feels just a little bit like home, that smells a little
> bit like adventure, that shrinks the world and blows it wide open at the
> same time.  A boat where you plot your course, cook your dinner, drop your
> anchor and pick it up again. The Major wants to be able to go to the boat
> any time, to sail in the rain or eat a cheese sandwich in the cockpit and
> not leave the dock on the prettiest day of the year.
>
>
> Now, like every other unresolved human being, I’ve got a Jones family.
> Fortunately, it’s a family that shrinks every year. Most of my Joneses now
> are about accomplishments or wishes for some certain younger souls who-i
> assume- have Joneses of their own. I don’t care much where I live, hardly
> want any thing or accolade. But the one persistent, monster, Kick-ass,
> Grandfather Jones is the one about the sailboat.
>
> ••
>
>
> So here she is. A Rhodes22, red-hulled, white-sailed, carefully designed
> and reworked by a genius named Stan Spitzer to be sailed single-handed by
> an jonesing old man on medium-sized water in light to semi heavy air.
>
>
> I met her last weekend in North Carolina and we had a couple of sails on
> the Albemarle Sound behind Cape Hatteras. She’ll be delivered by trailer up
> to the Jersey Shore next week. What’s it like to have Major Jones
> satisfied? It doesn’t look like any of those Olympic gold-medal winner
> ecstasy fests. In fact, it’s not ecstatic at all.
>
>
> The feeling is more like coming home after a long trip. It doesn’t make you
> want a new Jones to pursue, it doesn’t make you want to promote Major Jones
> to Colonel and go for a bigger and faster boat. It makes you feel that
> rarest of modern feelings: satisfied.
>
> Oh yum, savor it-satisfaction-not ‘closure’ or any feeling that diminishes
> someone else, feel free to smack your lips and throw a twenty in the
> collection plate the next time it comes your way.
>
>
> The best thing is that having one Major Jones satisfied, makes you inclined
> to see the rest of your personal Jones family in a different light: a
> slanted, low-angled, orangey light reflected off brackish water filled with
> life. Sometimes, the Major says, enough is enough and if the Major is
> satisfied, maybe you should be too.
>
>
>
>
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