Spare time means repair work

I have found that living on a boat gives me this unfamiliar sense of having more time. It might actually just be that I’m not spending time on useless stuff like checking social media or maybe that I have less space and things to waste my time on. In this new type of living I find myself having a lot more time to take in my surroundings and to reflect on what I want to do with my time. And every time that my phone beeps with some social media update I have this feeling of being disturbed rather than excited that someone is trying to contact me. I guess that I am used to not having technology in the summers after having worked in the Caribbean for the last couple of years. People know where I live, if they want to hang out all they have to do is to come by, but I guess it’s a difficult attitude to have in this time of technology. I have been doing more reading lately, with this newly found time of mine. As well as repairs. When I bought this 22 ft. boat four years ago it was purely intended to be an escape from a harsh reality and a way to access a world that I loved as a child. I wanted a cheap boat that I could learn from without feeling any fear of messing up and what the financial consequences would be from damaging it. And my little boat has indeed given me that, from having felt intimated sailing out and docking on my own in good weather, I now feel that I know the boat’s limits and I am comfortable taking it wherever. But now with all this spare time on my hands, I have decided to invest some money in doing some esthetic repair work. Not because I have hopes of selling my boat at a good price, but rather that I think the knowledge is really good to have if I want to work on boats in the future. If I am to mess up, I rather do it on my own boat that on a mega yacht.