Everyday I train. Every day I post Derby Points. Every day I check the rooster, hardly ever any new signups in Class 1 or 2. Everyday I check the Discussion board and; no, none, zero, zippo, nada going on here. Most years, there are lively discussions on gear, training, wind, wind apps, tide, tide apps, navigation, nav apps, routes, camping, stealth camping, small craft advisories, something or other. This year, not so much.
I'm not particularly adept at discussions of a technical matter. But, I can talk motivation. Enthusiasm, enthusiasm, where is it? I'll tell you this, pass it on to whoever you wish, TheJuice and I are motivated, we have more enthusiasm than ever.
Once a week, TheJuice and I give it our ALL to a day on the water; training, trying harder, applying ourselves, learning new stuff, talking routes, tides, memorizing tide tables, talking scenarios, options, plan A's, plan B's, what ifs.
We've been on that course 11 times and we want to do it a 12th!
Life is good in so, so many ways.
From the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!