PlanB
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Well done you!
First day of your new voyage ofdiscovery.
First day of your new voyage ofdiscovery.
Am I doing the right thing with liveaboard??
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Tranona
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Well done! Looks very smart.
rib
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Best of luck ?
ridgy
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Enjoy, and if you can face the thought of having a BSS inspection then you will find the Norfolk Broads to be a very agreeable place to hang out with excellent free fishing.
BigAlbatrossBird
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Those old Westerlys are an acquired taste, but beautiful to my eyes. Do you have a way of heating the thing? I'd recommend a refleks or other drip heater if only to keep the damp at bay during the cold months.
EOS2022
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Hi
Having just read this thread, just wondered how you are getting on, still living the dream
Having just read this thread, just wondered how you are getting on, still living the dream
Kelpie
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The OP hasn't visited in more than a year ago we'll probably never know.
I wonder what percentage of people who say they are definitely absolutely going to buy a boat and live on it actually do it.
Offshore57
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We did it in 2019 and still are. Loving life.
Kelpie
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Likewise, we left our home mooring a year ago and haven't looked back.
EOS2022
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I am doing my last contract then start the move abroad, i get fed up of the materialistic way of life in the UK and landlubbers, luckily I purchase a house many years again as a doeruper, and it has trebled in value. the downside i have a partner who is not 100% ready and loves the daily life style. I think we will do both, either buy in EU and then sail as often as we wish, or buy in the UK so she can keep her feet warm in the winter
either way its getting close to the departure point, and cant wait,
either way its getting close to the departure point, and cant wait,
EOS2022
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Where did you end up? and what was the final decision
EOS2022
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Where did you end up? and what was the final decision
Offshore57
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Final decision was to give up the 3 bed rented house and a boat on the Hamble in a boatyard, sell previous boat....add some money and get a big beamy flybridge boat to live on. By the time we had spent the winter of 2020 making it as we wanted, we managed to move on board the night Boris announced the first lockdown. (4 days ahead of schedule...phew) Started working from home the following day and have been here ever since. We use the boat to go away for holidays etc for a week at a time and keep a Rib for short day trips and picnics etc. South Coast Marina.
Kelpie
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We've ended up cruising. No fixed location.
Currently in the Balearics which was not the plan but we didn't get across the Atlantic last year for a number of reasons.
Plan now is to get to the Caribbean and spend at least one season there. I think I'd like to go in to the Pacific but it's a huge commitment. Cross that bridge when we come to it.
Wansworth
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From my armchair in Galicia places like the caribeean apart from the sun and wind are a bit boring,europe now it looks like it’s going to be more sunny beats those distant shores handsdown
EOS2022
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My Dream is to go across the Atlantic, but i am a few years experience behind to do that, the boat is good, but i am not. i think next year will be about setting myself up and preparing to move fulltime aboard.
i really do look forward to the day, i have been trying to find a good read, where someone started the journey, and is still cruising, I think funds will always be the case, but sometimes you have to go with the flow
i really do look forward to the day, i have been trying to find a good read, where someone started the journey, and is still cruising, I think funds will always be the case, but sometimes you have to go with the flow
mattonthesea
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My book!??? See link. Now in Sweden
YouTube channel: The Sailing Brothers is a down to earth, honest account by two Cardiff lads. They started off with a UK circumnavigation but decided to continue across Atlantic and are now in Canada
sailaboutvic
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Sooner or later people will start posting that you can liveaboard for very little money I think at one time some one posted 6K and they probably right if you want to find some out of the way place to moor, not move so not to use fuel , live on next to nothing , not socialising.
Just staying on board playing on some PC or posting on forums.
But not living , that's just survival, you can do that in a box somewhere.
Take it from someone who been cruising for a very long time , you need funds and extra funds for when things go wrong and they will, even if your living in a mud berth for free.
Your PC will break, water tanks spring a leak,
The batteries will see better days, mast gets a lighting strike,
Keel bolts start leaking, dinghy no longer inflates.
Sea cock need relplacing
If I had a penny for every time some one ask me ,
how much it cost us PA.
And to this day I still couldn't answer,
But for sure it's not 6,7,8 or 9 K
EOS2022
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Cant see the link, can you send it to me please
EOS2022
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I 100% agree with you, I think around 10kPa is there or there about, plus an emergency fund. my intention is to work remotely for the first few years as i work in Technology, building the cash reserves, plus a house sale plus a pension, yes i am only 52. we would hope to gain a reasonable income for rental. but with the world the way it is who know what will happen. I will still work towards doing it
