Today was a wonderful day out on the water with my brothers Tod and Christian, my sister Kara (Cale was working), my three nephews, and my wife and kids. I was rocking my "no rulers" t-shirt as we cruised around Newport Harbor in a 44′ Beneteau we rented for the day. We went out to the ocean and down the coast to Dana Point.
Felt great to be sailing again
We saw sea lions and dolphins, motored around a bit, and even put up the sails on the way back up the coast. It was an amazing day hanging out with my family. My older brother, Tod, helped teach all the kids how to steer, though some of us would freak out a bit as they over-corrected and sent us heading towards a dock or jetty. :)
My brother Tod with Aria and one of my nephews
We had plenty of food, snacks, and beer/wine/juice to fully enjoy the day. It was wonderful, super relaxing, and fun.
I even got to see the old boat, Adventures, which I lived on for two years during high school. You can read more about that here: Living on a Boat for Two Years Shaped My Life.
I have many great memories out on the water and today added another to it. I'm so very thankful to be fully enjoying vacation with family.
I took a bunch of videos and pictures with my phone that I put together as a movie which is just over ten minutes long. I'm sure my family and I will enjoy looking back on this one many years from now.
Meet some of my family and check out more pictures in the movie below:
Eight minutes into the video, you can see dolphins swimming right next to our boat.
Some of the pictures near the end were selfies my daughter took. :)
I hope you had an amazing day as well.
Some pictures included in the movie above:
My wife @corinnestokes and my sister Kara
My brother Christian and me taking a selfie
The amazing sunset we enjoyed
Thanks for reading and watching!
Aww man, such a fun vacation! I was going to bring up your time living on a boat, but you already mentioned it. It's really come full circle, and everything is the result of hard work and dedication. I really admire how you go about your life, Luke. It's something that I would be lucky to emulate. I know I've said it elsewhere, but it bears repeating: that anarchy shirt looks so cool!
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Thanks Jed. :) You can pick up a shirt at Incite Tees.
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Thanks for the link, Luke! It's cool that they accept Bitcoin. I was going to say that they shoud since they're all about anarchy. I hope they open it up to different cryptos soon, particularly STEEM haha!
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Looks like a great time :) Growing up we would take a motor boat (speedboat?) out on Lake Erie and for some reason I always loved going "below deck" to that front section and laying down there - no one could ever figure out why I loved that nausea inducing location, but I liked it for some reason feeling all the waves. Another time a friend and I tried to sleep overnight in a canoe - that did not work.
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I snuggled with my girls in the "V-Birth" (that's what they call the forward cabin a sailboat) today. I also love feeling the boat rocking up and down and the sound of the water against the hull.
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Hey @lukestokes I went to school at Newport Beach Elementary and lived on the Ocean Front right at the Balboa Pier in the 1960's.....I even used to go up on the roof of the Pavilion at Sunset to take down the American Flag. By the way the coolest place in the World for anyone to Grow Up in my opinion.
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Very cool! The boat I lived on was off the 15th street dock on the Lido Island side. :)
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@lukestokes I know it well. I am so glad you and your Family got to have this wonderful experience during This Christmas Season. I could Share with you all the Cool Places to see and go but of course I would boar the heck out of most people that have not been there yet................
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Hola amigo, me alegra mucho que estes disfrutando con tu hermosa familia, tus hermanos se parecen mucho a ti, un paseo en Velero es muy placentero, la briza, el mar, los delfines, es hermoso, lo que veo es que allá hace mucho frió, la temperatura del agua cual es? no se bañaron?
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Hacía un poco de frío, pero no está mal. El agua está fría, estoy seguro, pero no fuimos a nadar. Dicho esto, nos dirigimos a la playa hoy. Espero poder encontrar mi viejo traje de neopreno.
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jajaja, que bien, sino consigues aqui tenemos varios que te pueden servir. Saludos a tu esposa y besos para los niños.
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This looks so awesome. I would love to do a sailing trip one day. Especially when you are together with the family.
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"Sailing takes me away to where I've always heard it could be
Just a dream and the wind to carry me
And soon I will be free" I remembered this song by Cristopher Cross reading your post. You guys sure had fun!
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Merry Christmas my dear @lukestokes your post is so cheerful ...hope you enjoy your vacation and have a nice time for ever.... God bless you an d your beautiful family 😍
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@lukestokes WoW! This is great! I can't wait to make my special post on sailing :) lucky you.
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I'm surprised that you were not at the dock when Luke got back from Dana Point to welcome @lukestokes back to Newport.....
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great adventure @lukestokes i like it
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Sungguh luar biasa.. Bahagia rasa jika bisa ke laut kembali.. Sayang nya boat kami telah karam.. Sukses selalu selalu untuk anda.. Senang melihat dan terkenag masa saat di lautan lepas.
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Looks like a nice day out on the water. Lucky, the wind is always howling here in South Africa.
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Enjoy your vacation
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Woo~
You can sail sailing.
Really great!
I will only drive a car~
๑乛◡乛๑
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hello sir
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I've always wanted to go cruising around on a boat. Looks like you had a great time with your family. No rules and no rulers.
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yup...I'm envious.
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Wow what an amazing Christmas! Looks like you all had a great time and a lot of fun :)
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Looks like fun! Love the shirt, and I noted the Incite Tees link above.
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I met them at PorcFest years ago. I first mentioned incite tees last year in this post: The Loop: Why Voting and Revolutions Don't Work.
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I believe I'll have to have one of those soon!
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Great post..And enjoy your vacation..Carry on my friend..
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Love it. Enjoying life with the family is quality time!
Steem on!
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What an amazing day you guys had sailing in the ocean! :) Love that there were a lot of kiddo captains on board lol! :P
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Great post and wonderful jolly family. You shared some great picture and an amusing video. Thanks dear.
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Amazing family i must state Lukes. Nothing is more enthising then to spend quality time with your near and dear ones. Its a treat indeed. Wish u Merry Christmas and a prosperous 2018. Regards Nainaz.
#thealliance
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Thank you!
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That was so nice, it looks like a nice way to spend holidays with family. Wasn't anybody sea sick? (I hope I have written it correct). I know that we did somethink like that with the family (okay not the cool, but it was sailing) and my mother was not feeling so good, but I loved to look at the water as we were crossing it with a small ship. That's all I can remember :) Hope everybody enjoyed this experience!
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We had a blast and no one got seasick, thankfully. :)
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Looks like a great time. There is nothing like sailing to me. Something magical about when the sails go up, the motor goes off, and the wind of mother nature pushes you along elegantly. I've been hooked for a while now :)
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a trip to the boat is something ... man is getting rid of all the troubles.
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Wow looks like an amazing day! What a cool thing to see wild dolphins and sea lions :)
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Newport Beach is an awesome chunk of California. Looks like you had a blast. Thanks for sharing.
Brent
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Really beautiful family. look funny boating, Happy new year, and so much good things cames to you, blesses. sorry for the translation jeje.
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Enjoy this vacation.
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great adventure at any age!
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Oh yeah, that looks nice. We're only in December, and already my wife is after me to get her to the beach. It's awfully cold here in Utah, but at least we got to enjoy a white Christmas. :)
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It is great living at the ocean. We live on the Pacific. I don't currently own a boat but would love to. What a great day you guys had sailing. Looks like everyone had mega fun. Really great to see the dolphins come out to play!
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Yeah, that was definitely the highlight of the day.
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It's refreshing to see a family happy, together, intact and in the sea together. Loved seeing Adventures. Gonna read your post on how it shaped your life. When I was reading and watching the video, I was thinking, "That's what honorable men do."
Keep being awesome to your family and the world!
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Awesome post Luke!
Looks like real fun :)
This picture actually reminds me of Jack from Titanic.
-> Does it feel like, you have the world in your hands? haha
Wish you und your family much fun and a great time :)
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Hahah! I've never been compared to DiCaprio before. First time for everything, I guess.
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Hahaha yeah that's how it goes!
Leo is an awesome guy haha
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Cool!
I lived and worked on a boats in Newport harbor for 7 years, it is a great place to sail around. The outer islands are amazing too. Thanks for the flash back! Nice shirt! I forgot to ask where you got it at steemfest. Hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas.
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Wow, very cool? Where did you work? Many of my family (mom, dad, brother, sister) at one point or another worked at Lido Sailing Club. It's now called Winward Sailing club. As for the shirt, you can get it here: http://www.incitetees.com/
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I remember Winward Sailing club! I worked in the fuel dock, Island Marine Fuel and a couple shipyards as well as fishing boats. Hope you had a wonderful visit!
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Looks a lovely trip with everyone smiling but way to much water for my liking :)
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Looks like a really great time! And I like the whole undertone of gratitude, as well... you wear anarchy very well!
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Anarchy agrees with me. :)
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Looks like a great time.
I was shoveling snow....
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Hello @lukestokes, It seems that you really enjoy traveling with your family by ship, I like your post, thank you for sharing your experience, I will wait for your latest post, greeting friendship for all friends steemit
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That's awesome!
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I wish I could upvote your post 2x. It is super amazing to see the romanticism in sailing. I sometimes try to learn laser sailing with the help of my team at the International Sailing Academy. After seeing your post, I thought that I should learn some laser sailing tips from you. Haha just kidding. Keep it up, man. Cheers to Laser Sailing
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This is certainly a problem which needs to be dealt with. It's frustrating but unless enough whales with equal power regularly use up all their voting power to flag it, it will continue.
Some argue it's like buying a mining rig and then mining with it. Some people buy Steem Power and then game the system to take rewards. It's a big discussion which I've talked about at length here: Self-Voting: Scammy Behavior, Rational ROI, or Something Else?
Either way, it's not at all related to my post here. If you want to discuss that, we can do so in chat on rocket chat or in discord.
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I looked into this abuse a bit more and realized how bad it is. I wrote this post today about it, even though I'm on vacation with my family. Thankfully, most of those comments have been knocked down to $0.
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