8 weeks till we are liveabaords - one more wannabee making it happen

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Yippee - Only eight weeks, one house move, one business hand over, one country re-location and Oh yeah Christmas to go!!

Getting very excited, kicking the adventure off in the Med and then maybe further afield as the mood takes us.

Been dreaming the dream and planning for about three years and it is finally coming to conclusion, but my gosh the run up is stressful, we have to keep on reminding ourselves what we are doing and why we are doing it.

Shaking off our current lives is not easy at all.

Just hope we like the new life as much or more than the current one! :o
 
Good luck, what type /size of boat are you doing it in?

you have beaten us to it by 4 months!
we (me & Wife) are currently kitting out our Aquastar33, (motor boat)
Unexpected redundancy brought our expected retirement date forward by 10 years.
Plan is we will depart Jersey in April heading for the Med, down the middle of France via the French inland waterways,
we don't expect to return to Jersey for a couple of years,
expect return trip will be from the Med via canal de Med to the Atlantic and back up to Jersey along the French Coast.

Good luck & enjoy, maybe we will bump into you at some point.
Regards
Paul & Jane
 
Hey Paul
We are doing it on a Lagoon 440, so no French waterways for us sadly.

Kicking off in Southern France, spend a couple of years in the Med before moving on to North America. If you see a Lagoon 440 called Two Drifters on your travels then drop in for a beer.

It is going to the wife, me and the dog - plus hordes of F&F's by the sounds of it.

This is a not quite mid-life crisis, we planned it for a one day never retirement but then a couple of years ago it looked like we could speed it up and then this year the door opened and we are stepping through it. Wife and I are late 30's early 40's and will still be working, but remotely, the biggest changer for us is that the mobile phone operators are scrapping roaming charges next year.
 
Definitely doing the right thing. We left it until I was in my 50's and now I can measure my time left in years rather than decades........ And we're still only half way down the first page of our must see list (which is five pages) Remember that once you're on board your time/activity reality changes (for the better) and the weeks and months slip away without you noticing. So enjoy and pass on your joy by writing about your experiences. There will be many.
 
Bertramdriver will do. we are very lucky to even be considering doing this, but things have a funny way of working out when you put your mind to it.

The adventure will be the journey, we both work in the travel industry so hope to be able to keep a small income going, as much as we need to live which should not be massive as we are low maintenance and able to fix most stuff ourselves.

We will be doing a blog, but it will be a travel blog rather than a sailing blog and will be focused on the destinations and what people can do on their holidays as well as tales of the situations we find ourselves in.
 
Peroo said:
Enjoy - keep an open mind and enjoy the people, the countries and the experiences to come.......you won't regret it
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Cheers Peroo - will try to do so, luckily we have travelled a lot with work. Most looking forward to actually spending quality time in places rather than the in and outs we have been used to for the last 10 years. Just hope everyone else will keep an open mind with us as we try to muddle through in whatever language we are currently working with
 
Hey, got to agree with you time does fly, I left in my 60·s now past my mid 70·s still healthy and getting younger,,, but changed the two sails for twin motors, only regret is not doing it sooner.

Happy new year 2014
 
Best of luck to you both. You're doing exactly what I intend to. I'm 35 and plan in the next 5 years so I'll be the same age as well. Who says getting old sucks.
 
Costs

forestboy said:
Do you mind, what are you're calculated yearly costs, minus depreciation?
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In all honesty we have been round and round on this one and are slightly going to suck it and see.

That being said we know what we currently live on and what our previous boat cost to maintain, we have also done several extended cruises of a month at a time.

So we think we will be about £1,200 per month on average but have budgeted for more. If we spend less great we can build up a cushion. We are planning on earning from working and passive investment income and rental property.

We are in no rush and aim to avoid marinas at all costs, we also don't really do expensive restaurants, but we are not monks.

Will probably keep a record on finances and post in six months or so.
 
Two Drifters said:
In all honesty we have been round and round on this one and are slightly going to suck it and see.

That being said we know what we currently live on and what our previous boat cost to maintain, we have also done several extended cruises of a month at a time.

So we think we will be about £1,200 per month on average but have budgeted for more. If we spend less great we can build up a cushion. We are planning on earning from working and passive investment income and rental property.

We are in no rush and aim to avoid marinas at all costs, we also don't really do expensive restaurants, but we are not monks.

Will probably keep a record on finances and post in six months or so.
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That's a modest estimate but perhaps on the go costs are a little less. I'm starting to crunch the numbers and it's very difficult. The big thing for me is being able to save just enough along with maintenance to be able to upgrade the boat every 10 years or so and it's not looking like that's gonna be viable unless I work, well, more than I want to.

I'm aiming for a boat around 7 years ish old to slow down depreciation but also hopefully not be so old that everything starts to need attention immediately.
 
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