So Have We Accomplished Anything Yet?

/ Ben Starling

2011 in Review

What Have We Accomplished So far?

This year in August, the Can Opener and I officially (officially to us at any rate) launched our Get Cruising Now Plan. We honed, we polished, we set goals, a timeline (2014 or bust) and a plan to get there. 

It’s been 5 months now, so what progress have we made? 

Well, a lot of ‘we’ve made a start’ type of ‘to-do’s’ have been ticked. The kind of ‘to-do’s’ that are meant to set us up for the real work we will need to do in 2012. 

So, the 2011 highlights (since August) are:

  1. joined yacht club
  2. started team racing 
  3. read 9 cruising reference texts, attended 4 cruising lectures
  4. made contact with 3 boats that we hope to crew on for next year
  5. researched foul weather gear upgrades (still have to buy them though…)
  6. began yacht designs research 
  7. the Can Opener worked out 4x/wk… usually
  8. the Can Opener began studying Spanish and picked up his old French studies and…
  9. … in order to share what we learned, and keep ourselves organised and focused – we launched this blog!

Are we happy? 
Well, you can always wish you had done a lot more. But writing it down feels good. And maybe it’s not too bad… It’s a start. Something to build on in 2012.  

… Off to carve out some New Year’s Resolutions for 2012!

–Captain Cat

(transcribed by the Can Opener)

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