Don't fit the mold

So It has been said that I am not the cruising type. I’m not a big one for parties, and I am not a drinker which most cruisers are. It seems that beer is the primary goal for most cruisers and it is hard not getting sucked into alcoholism from peer pressure. After 2 drinks I always get a headache in the morning and feel like rubbish. I can mitigate it by having a glass of water between drinks and that does help a lot but it is really the staying up late after midnight that gets my goat in a big way. The other thing is that I don’t relish the thought of getting dressed up in a white suit on a hot, humid day and sanding down the outside of a very dirty hull. That or crawling around in tight spaces beside a hot engine trying to undo a nut from a rusted bolt using my third hand. But there are other things that drive me to do this. Like the sheer beauty of the glassy ocean, first thing in the morning. The sound of bubbles rising up from the deep to stir the imagination. The dark stormy sea or the white out from a sudden squall. I want to at least try it out and if I don’t like it then I will move on.