Another Milestone Passed

[silver-fox]

Well my fellow forumites I wish I could bottle this moment.

! I got out of bed with a spring in my step today- which is not all normal at all for a Monday morning (And I estimate that I have got up and gone to work some 1,824 Monday mornings already so I am not without the experience to judge normality)

Went off to work, still chirpy, and then after a tense moment or two and some hesitation when the old bottom lip wobbled, I handed my notice in /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

What a Eureka moment. I quit. I am now 4 weeks off being unemployed - possibly even sooner if I get paid off.

So that's the last big hurdle cleared, because the house is sold...,
....the boat bought and equipped (well Ok nearly equipped)

....and now I join the great unwashed, that happy band of people with no visible means of support - and come to think of it no fixed abode!

I must say it feels much better to be poor than I thought it would!

So lets find out what it feels like to be a liveaboard. ... do you know I think I might just to take to it -- I fancy a cold beer already. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Happy Daze! SWMBO and me have been planning this for the past 14 months. Just can't believe its really happening. 4 weeks from now we shall be wrestling with the heat of summer in the Med - not just for 2 weeks but all summer and the autunmn too - truly tough work but someone has to do it!

Well I have to go now and fight with the evening rush hour but only 19 more times after tonight! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I really wish I could bottle this moment

 

[Stingo]

Congratulations. I bet in a few months time, you'll wonder why it took you so long to do it?

 

[webcraft]

Well done that fox . . .

We are slowly heading home for August after a year away, but I fancy that a winter in the UK will see us heading South again.

Freedom is truly a 'pearl beyond price'.

Nick

Yacht 'Fairwinds'
Calheta, Madeira
http://www.znoy8.co.uk

 

[Toutvabien]

It's great innit!! Getting over the panic!

My last day is the 15th June.

 

[badman]

Lots of luck and fun /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[Genie]

Good luck Silver Fox
That's the kind of fantasy many of us may have, but only a few have the bottle to actually do.
I wish you many cold beers and contented years of earthly wanderings!
Don't forget the sunscreen!
Rob

 

[tgpt21]

What a feeling. As a veteran of two years retirement, my only advice is plan your sail and sail your plan. I deviated from my plan and what a disaster. Good luck to you, sir.

 

[silver-fox]

Firstly thank you one and all for joining in the spirit of my celebration/nerves.

Secondly flip flop you can't leave us up in the air like that...... what went wrong with your plan and what would you do differently with hindsight?

Do tell /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[Stingo]

[ QUOTE ]
...plan your sail and sail your plan...

[/ QUOTE ]No, no, no. A true cruiser has no plan and he sticks too it.

 

[Richard10002]

I too would be interested in what happened to flip flop.

I thought I was becoming a liveaboard when we left Glasson Dock last August... had a leaving do, visited friends and relatives etc.. came home at the end of September for 6 weeks.... and i keep coming home.... mainly because i havent tied up my loose ends. Had another leaving do in March..... dont plan to have any more leaving do's as no-one believes me anymore.

Anyway, I'm in the process of packing up my flat and putting everything in the garage. It needs a couple of fairly minor joinery/plumbing jobs, then it's ready to let so, hopefully, I will be fully liveaboard when we leave lagos for malta on June 18th. With the flat sorted and let, I should find it easier to stay away.

Good luck

 

[silver-fox]

Richard - how could you have so many leaving do's and not invite me? Although I have to admit to some hypocricy here as we have had one already when we sold up and plan to have another before we move out.

Most of our friends will come to ensure we really are going as I think we tend to depress house prices in decent neighbourhoods!



Stingo; I am with you. definitely no plan and even then I shan't stick to it!

 

[capnsensible]

Hearty congratulations! Welcome to a new world of leaky boats, scary moments and procuring spare parts in a strange language. It's great and I wouldn't swap it for anything. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[Moodyjim]

Jolly well done, can't quite manage the full-time bit but some part time is looming. Enjoy and stay with the forum when you get time.

 

[suse]

It's absobloodyfanbloodytastic! Mrs Overweight Tolerant Stuckinthemud Family-Woman went away last year and never came back.

Have an amazing rest of your lives! You will, you know ...

S x

 

[pollygonforty]

Left the uk 15years ago ,got caught in the property collapse in the early nineties ,lost shedloads of dosh but still owned my boat and went for it ,never regretted one moment.Live the dream

 

[chrishelen]

well dont forget to take your laptop so you can stay in touch with what your running away from.