87 MAKE MY DAY - Sailing Community

Community is a very important part of the liveaboard cruising lifestyle. As sailors we come together to help one another, to celebrate special occasions, to have social activities together. The beauty of this is that one can participate as much or as little as they feel comfortable with. When they feel like being part of the group, people are welcome. When they want to be alone or do their own thing, no judgement is passed. In our humble opinion, it is the heart and soul of this way of life. We find it quite appealing. And it renews our faith in humanity. In our new style of living it is common to help other people. When somebody needs an extra hand, a piece of material, a tool or a tow. We are here for each other. It is good way of living, it feels great. Vikings Going South lost their propeller and we help them manoever their boat. Garfield also lost their propeller, so along with cruisers, we help them get moored up. Leontien sews up some damaged canvas and new zippers. With a group of cruisers, We take a 6km walk to a little oasis in the dessert. The oasis is a mini zoo with many kinds of birds, fish and turtles. A really beautiful place to visit. Hans and Renée from Gravity are celebrating 50 years together. We bake a cheesecake and waveguide baked a proper Dutch apple pie. Make My Days bottom is bit dirty and needs to be cleaned. We borrowed a deck snorkel from waveguide. This makes life so much easier and is a lot of fun. We are saying goodbye/ until the next time to new friends Peter from Surprise has been in Porto Santo for 1,5 years. He fell of his bicycle here and was hurt quite badly. Almost everybody in Porto Santo knows him as the Flying Dutchman. People come and people go. A whole new group of Dutch sailors came in. At the same time Waveguide is leaving. Time for them to head to the Canaries to meet up with their son. After 4 months being neighbors, we became friends with them. We had a nice farewell party for them. We will meet again. Hope you enjoy! Don’t forget to like and subscribe If you would like to put something in the “Tip Jar” You can use PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/svmakemyday Music by Chris Foster- Drift away Volzuigt- Blistered Paw