SCHOONER.

HAD said that Joshua Slocum, the former master of many sailing ships - getting reaching the age of sixty-one, encountered a problem to have a job because he was too old for an active merchant service.one day he got a hint from an acquaintance of an old boat with a cheap price. The subject in question was an over hundred-year-old rotten boat up to thirty-seven feet. Anyway, despite the state of the boat and its age- Slocum started repairing the boat for sea- for ocean -

Although I am not anything like Joshua Slocum, I have sailed only on a cargo carrying sailing ship in my youth, and all the others after those ships have been steamers and motors ships, and I am now much older than sixty-one. However, there is a certain similarity. It would appear for example in this: an acquaintance of mine a few weeks ago hinted of a boat which could be get with a cheap price. As Slocum got wise to repair a boat for sea-shape, so I got the same wise to repair a boat for sea. Slocum was with empty pockets, and I was empty pockets too. I had my pension, but it's not budget for hiring somebody or buy a boat of such size. Joshua's boat was 37 feet and so is my boat. Joshua's bot was rigged like a sloop. And so is my boat. What to say all about that: that we old sailor dreams to go once again out.

I'm rather an old man, still not old timer. Getting complete the surviving of the small vessel I found it being rather a schooner by her type than a motor-sailer with her two masts and the aft deck with no a cokbit. The idea set the sails and to get her underway, took an upper hand of me and I embarked on the business to repair the sailer and make her shape for the sea.

The two first days were bad with the long way to drive to the marine harbour and to climbing up to deck by the ladder with my bad backbone. As I didn't have not much money in my wallet, I had to be careful reactivate the vessel.