Re: what would they be like today?


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Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on July 03, 2003 at 07:38:43 from 217.137.106.18 user Laurence_.

In Reply to: Re: what would they be like today? posted by Peter Willis on July 02, 2003 at 16:14:58:

But as Peter says "these are organised, safety-conscious, pre-meditated and, often expensive" As a teenager this is exactly what turned me off the rather more limited offerings available those days. Perhaps because of AR, what I wanted to do then (as now) was my own thing in my own little boat, or get up my own mountain, in either case looking after my own neck in my own way.

Perhaps it might have been good for my soul (or my self development) to be told to clean out the heads in a tall ship, but at that time it was the last thing I wanted. In more mature years I can in fact enjoy even that and have had some wonderful voyages in bigger ships, but it wasn't what Ransome had taught me to seek as a teenager (they never cleaned out the heads on the 'Wild Cat')

"Spontaneous self-generated adventures" are the key. You could still do it in some measure in the 1950s. Are young people actually still doing it today? Are there young people like Nancy with the gump to fight against the nanny state?

Ellen MacArthur did it in Spades, so perhaps it is still possible if you want to do it enough.



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