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The Joplin man and the sea 36-year-old follows dream of sailing the ocean By Melissa DunsonTHE JOPLIN GLOBE (JOPLIN, Mo.) Bates walked away from the race with a sunburn, a lifetime of memories and the desire for a new way of life. His boat currently sits in Grand Lake, but Bates is considering putting it in the Mississippi River, sailing to New Orleans, coming back later and sailing to the Gulf Coast, then finally making his way to the Dominican Republic, where Bates said he wants to live out his life sailing in the Caribbean ocean races. “What good is having a dream, if you don’t have the ambition to go out and make it happen?” Bates asked. “People talk about what they want to do. I do it. It’s the difference between waking up and saying, ‘I wish I could do that,’ and saying, ‘I’m going to do that.’” Bates is currently putting together a sailing team to race in the Grand Cup Sailboat Regatta on April 26 on Grand Lake. He has also been invited to race in the Stanford Antigua Sailing Week later this spring in the Caribbean. “For being 36 years old, I’ve had a pretty eventful life,” Bates said. Melissa Dunson writes for The Joplin (Mo.) Globe. X X X Online tour For more information and photographs of the 28th Annual Heineken Regatta that Joplin resident Jason Bates recently sailed in, visit www.heinekenregatta.com/. Next year’s event is scheduled for March 5-8 in St. Maarten. 
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