170 - The Tease — Captain Father John

Miles cruised 0, fuel purchased $0, slip fee $150, electric $52, daily high temperature 78°f

We have been at Highbourne Cay Marina for five nights. Our plan was to spend two nights here and start heading south in the Exumas. Strong east winds have prevented our departure. There are few better places to be stranded for the better part of a week.

On Friday we will cruise south for 50 miles to Big Majors near Staniel so we can swim with the pigs. The other highlight in the area is Thunderball Grotto.

Craig and Day Olney from Toucan Deux joined us for sundowners on Wednesday night. They are happy with their new location on the hook just outside the marina entrance. They are still bouncing a little, but they have not dragged anchor at all. There plan to start sailing south on Friday so we will see them again.

When we entered Highbourne Cay Marina there were two sets of range markers to guide our way. The range markers are placed in front of one another with the shorter one in front. When you are directly in line with them they line up and you know that you are on the proper heading.

Captain Jack provides the poetry for the day – The March Tease

Will it be the lamb or the lion’s roar
with days of warmth that’s for sure
she’ll tease us to want some more
sunny, rainy, strong winds off shore
will it be a gray day
will it be fair
will our spirits soar
or will the rains pour some more.
Cap’n Jack

Today in Lake Bluff it’s overcast with a chance of rain.
Lake Michigan water temp. is 41f.
Wind from the north 4-12kts.
CJ

Bonus photo

Carl (Chef) Wooden – quote of the day.

“Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.” – W. Clement Stone

W. Clement Stone was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 4, 1902. His father died in 1905 leaving his family in debt. In 1908 he hawked newspapers on the South Side of Chicago, while his mother worked as a dressmaker. By 1915 he owned his own newsstand. In 1918 he moved to Detroit to sell casualty insurance for his mother.

Stone dropped out of high school to sell insurance full-time. He later received a diploma from the YMCA Central High School in Chicago. He later took courses at Detroit College of Law and Northwestern University.

Much of what is known about Stone comes from his autobiography The Success System That Never Fails. In that book, he tells of his early business life which started with the selling of newspapers in restaurants. At the time, this was a very novel thing to do, which deviated dramatically from the normal practice of young boys hawking newspapers on street corners.

At first, the managers of restaurants tried to discourage him from this practice, but he gradually won them over by his politeness, charm, persistence and the fact that by and large, the patrons of the restaurants had no objection to this new way of selling his newspapers.

From there, he graduated to selling insurance policies very successfully in the offices of downtown businesses. His mother was the initiator of his new career, and together, they did quite well, she as the manager of the business, and he as the salesperson.

Stone ran $100 into millions with a strong desire to succeed and by putting into practice the principles in the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.