Fair Winds and Following Seas

Habit 4: Think Win-Win isn’t just about being nice. It’s a character-based code for human interaction and collaboration. - The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. - John Wooden

Good people are Everything. Excellent Adventure here with key team members at Goodhue Boat Company.

Engaging in an enterprise with others is another matter requiring skin the game time to some… for others with a different perspective the daily grind is easy.

Discipline is Freedom. - J.W.

Opportunity for this past year came thru Tom, Dale & Robbie. Former self made real estate billionaire Sam Zell spoke of staying power - cash flow - required to allow your other businesses/investments to gain traction. 2024/25 at GBC became more…

New friends never imagined was the true gift out of nowhere. Some amazing people out there at Shep’s Boat Basin… respect the Heritage. Brianna, Tyler to Chris Squared… Chase, Josh. Big Rick showing me the ropes around operation stink pot lake boats with great humor. Jim A for taking a great pic and helping with clients…. David B teaching local heritage. 

Warrior Joe every day leading the charge > Mentality & Gratitude.

Thanks 🙏 2 Tom for getting the right ready & charging - lead by example.

Hard to believe I’m headed west legally. Dale my fiend and former supervisor became quite a leader to go down to the DMV for the final lap around the Comeback Racetrack > Driver’s Test. Incredible I can rent a car to move gear to the house upon arrival to Montevideo // Carrasco International AirPort.

Everyone at Goodhue Boat helped this process for which I’m forever grateful.

Our A R T / Surf Gallery site may be a short term documentary of the transition to construct ‘The Endless Summer.’ Manantiales, Uruguay…

Building daily while following burning endeavors… embracing healthy pain.

During the year 1994 I was fortunate to watch this movie in an outdoor theatre in The British Indian Ocean Territory. At 24 the thought was surfing was probably unattainable being an old guy…. Caught my first left at Tamarack Carlsbad on a nasty winter day [31 years old]… a real left on a classic San Clemente BH thruster. We can all do more and things we thought not possible should we consider following passion, focus and a strategic mindset.

New England helped clarify there is still work to be done… stay positive. Pat G msg here… while not in Africa it’s all about the ‘Tribe’ of people with the gift of action and positive energy. Some of us need to get into that 3rd medium way out in oceans around the world… There is No Tomorrow.

Howard Marks documents the advantages of investing saved capital in inefficient markets where specialization, skill & hard work can add value leading to an aboard average performance over time.

Bank of England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 OSS / CIA Tether recently ‘invested’ their wealth transfer funds into Elemental Altus, EMX, Metalla and 8.1% in Gold Royalty…. Front running that deal this winter helped become a piece of the puzzle. Humbly working on Rebuilding the mind and body was plausibly more important.

Kobe 24 notes ‘getting better every day - the morning suffering is the dream.’

Wheelchair experience in August 2021. Paradigm Shifts… pains on a treadmill are now seen as true morning offerings.

Past goal was to find a way to still achieve creativity while building a constructive lifestyle to help others… Asymmetrical / Contrarian value investing around another culture could be a fun way to be optimistic in a more challenging macro…

Compounding… gift of using volition- Human Action [von Mises].

All surfers embrace Volatility. You can either use it or be used…

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire. - Aristotle

Never far from good friends… Hope all can come visit Bikii Beach … 🔜 stay tuned for pictures.

Thank you to all for most valued lessons learned.

Who would have thought the Japanese Stone Garden south could be reconstructed to become a new enterprise… gift of persistence.

https://theedge27.blogspot.com/2024/02/ronin-garden.html

Jim Rohn notes it’s not what they give you but what you become… learning a few new skills and dropping 20+ lbs thru morning suffering has been a gift. I need to love pain… maybe too much given the situation of my heels/feet… time to get a final run and listen to Goggins perspective…

My best Pal will be here and in 01106. Forever base of ops back in the Lakes area… 

Lean & Hungry > the goal [Gladiator - Original Movie] -

Grande Abrazos // Big Hugs -

Cristó 

Upon a secret journey
I met a holy man
His blindness was his wisdom
I'm such a lonely man

And as the world was turning
It rolled itself in pain
This does not seem to touch you
He pointed to the rain

"You will see light in the darkness
You will make some sense of this
And when you've made your secret journey
You will find this love you miss" - Secret Journey // The Police

"Fair Winds": The Dictionary of American Regional English defines "Fair Wind" as "safe journey; good fortune." An early example of the phrase's use is in Herman Melville's Moby Dick, published in 1851, where it says near the end "Let me square the yards, while we may, old man, and make a fair wind of it homeward." In other words, let me square the yards (add on all sail) and make a safe journey home.

"Following Seas": Defined by Bowditch's American Practical Navigator as "A sea in which the waves move in the general direction of the heading." It further defines "Tide" as "the periodic rise and fall of the water resulting from gravitational interactions between the sun, moon, and earth. . . . the accompanying horizontal movement of the water is part of the same phenomenon." In simple terms: the movement of the water, the waves, and the surface, correspond with the movement of the tide.

"Fair Winds and Following Seas" is really two quotes originating from different sources. The two quotes are a nautical phrase of good luck--a blessing as it were--as the person, group, or thing it is said to departs on a voyage in life. It is often used at a "beginning" ceremony such as a commissioning ceremony of a ship or people, as well as in retirement, change of command, or farewell ceremonies.