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“Home is the sailor home from the sea.”  Good-bye to Colin, Mayor of the Netsel Marina

“Under the wide and starry sky,

Dig me a grave, there let me lie,

Glad did I live and gladly I die,

And I laid me down with a will,

And this be the verse that you ‘grave for me:

Here he’s at rest where he wanted to be,

Home is the sailor home from sea, and the hunter home from the hill.

Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyone’s friend Colin died today.

We called him The Mayor because he helped with so many of the marina activities. He previewed and then showed the Monday night movies.  He hosted the Monday morning cruisers’ radio NET always starting off with ‘Monday Monday’  so that once when he didn’t,  everyone let him know!  Colin initiated the morning coffee ‘social’ at Khave Dünyası and everyone was welcome; cruisers, townies, a visiting  Middle East princess, a seasonal hotel worker from Moldova.  And he remembered names no matter what language they were in.  He was a helping hand when people needed it. 

Colin has ‘gone home from the sea’ and Netsel Marina is filled with sadness.  

Colin and his wife Jane at Christmas 2014

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