THE DASH

by Linda Ellis

I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend. He referred to the dates on the tombstone from the beginning… to the end.

He noted that first came the date of birth and spoke of the following date with tears, but he said what mattered most of all was the dash between those years.

For that dash represents all the time they spent alive on earth and now only those who loved them know what that little line is worth.

For it matters not, how much we own, the cars… the house… the cash. What matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash.

So think about this long and hard; are there things you’d like to change? For you never know how much time is left that still can be rearranged.

To be less quick to anger and show appreciation more and love the people in our lives like we’ve never loved before.

If we treat each other with respect and more often wear a smile… remembering that this special dash might only last a little while.

So when your eulogy is being read, with your life’s actions to rehash, would you be proud of the things they say about how you lived your dash?

Jun 3

Jun 3 Stag Party - 2018

Dash Ocean Racing

Keep it tight, letting it get a little loose, but always keep it “Tight Loose”

So our buddy Jase Hancox was given a stag party send off in Queenstown. The Luanda love boat pictured was part of the party, but it was not until we were back in the safety of The Sherwood Hotel at 2 in the morning that Ben (me) and Ben Irving were deep in conversation. Things had got loose, so we needed to get tight to bring the order back into the chaos that the universe had fallen into, we needed Tight Loose.

So hiding from the chaos we talked about our passion for sailing, and I let slip to Ben that I had been hankering for the ocean and so was looking at a further leg of the Clipper Round the World race. My idea was to tick off leg 4, the Australian leg with a Sydney to Hobart in the mix. Ben seeing I was serious, and feeling he was missing out suggested I buy a boat so we could sail our own Sydney to Hobart together! At 0200 during a bender stag party this sounded like a fantastic idea.

On Monday I started searching for a boat.

THE DASH

Jun 3 Stag Party - 2018

Jul 23 Survey - 2018

Nov 13 Clipper Round The World - 2017