Houses, are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. They are definitely inferior things, belonging to the vegetable not the animal world, rooted and stationary, incapable of gay transition. I admit, doubtfully, as exceptions, snail-shells and caravans. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting-place. It is for that reason, perhaps, that, when it comes, the desire to build a boat is one of those that cannot be resisted. It begins as a little cloud on a serene horizon. It ends by covering the whole sky, so that you can think of nothing else. You must build to regain your freedom.

Arthur Ransome - Racundra's First Cruise (Chapter 1), 1923

GLEDA (Pronounced GLEE DA) - Old English Female Name meaning 'To Make Happy'

First the bad news, I haven’t done any work on the boat this week but the good news is that I’ve been super productive working on my business and planning the way forward with the non boat building side of the Gleda project. I’ll be sharing more with you soon but for now I wanted to make you aware of a new website I’ve put up. It’s at www.dreamtosail.com and although there’s not much to see there yet I have published a post that outlines my aims for the site. I’ve never really been happy with my previous attempts to communicate my life outside the build but I am super confident that dreamtosail.com will be the perfect platform for me to show what I am doing to make my dream a reality and, hopefully help others do the same. I hope some of you will find it interesting and I’d appreciate it if you could perhaps link to the site or tell others about it.
Any thoughts or comments you have would also be gratefully received. Talk soon.

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