So you're out #sailing in a new area and your electrics fail. No bother, just go back to using a paper chart for navigation (if you ever stopped: I didn't).
The only problem is that the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office is withdrawing its portfolio of Admiralty Standard Nautical Charts and Thematic Charts.
Thank Bob we still have Imray ... for now.
I'm also wondering what small or traditional boat sailors without electronics are meant to do.
Free time -- and the feeling of freedom that accompanies it -- involves doing things, alone or with family or friends, that don't require an artificial schedule or meaningless activity.
When we pursue our interests and desires, we do so with purpose, because the result of what we make or do is for our own benefit.
Every Saturday a small group would go sailing in the bay where I used to live (on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.) I captured this image on one of those days...
"free" time: when we're away from the workplace, with friends, and doing something adventurous and fun and exciting -- this is a memorable, golden time that warms our heart as it creates memories we are determined to repeat.
After a day out and about, it's good to come home. Life feels most balanced when there's a little of each: adventuring outside one's doors, and then returning to them.
Autumn is a season of both bright foliage and brooding skies. Like spring, it plays with warmth and coolness -- you definitely appreciate the rays of the sun when you find yourself in the shadows.