silver-fox
Well-Known Member
Just had to share the news with people who would understand or burst!
Well the house is sold and freedom beckons!
The only remaining challenge on that front is to get the money out of our solicitor’s client account. Funny how they manage to hang onto it for a day or two isn’t it?
SWMBO and I are off on a 7:00am flight tomorrow to the Med to look at our final, final shortlist and expect to make a decision on which of the boats to buy in the coming week. Already one of the owners, of a boat they we checked out earlier in the summer, has revised his selling price and indicated he will accept a price that we think is very “realistic” so we go armed with one good offer already.
It’s been so long in the planning that it feels very unsettling as things start to crystallise and the plan becomes fact. Still we are on track to meet our objective of becoming liveaboards by the carefully chosen date April 1st 2007!
We know we are treading a well-worn path and the tips, from others who have already done it, which we have received from this forum, have been invaluable. The excitement and trepidation are building in equal parts and we both wish we could get on with it and sail away tomorrow.
Our grand plan is to spend a couple of years in the Med and then go off to the Caribbean and beyond. Just how far afield we go will depend on what appetite we have for voyaging once we have been doing it for a while. We have both done loads of sailing at weekends and holidays but we have never lived aboard full time and obviously concerned about whether the reality will match the dream.
However every time the old bottom lip starts to tremble as we think of selling our lovely house and leaving behind good friends and a secure income, we think of the loss of a couple of good friends in recent years and the realisation that its now or never. The understanding that health can also be a limiting factor has reinforced our determination to act now.
The bottom line is “carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero” Seize the day and trust little in the future.
By retiring early in our mid-50s we are exchanging a life that is relatively cash rich but time poor for one on a more modest budget but where our lives will be our own.
Reading Eric Hiscock’s books as a teenager left me with an itch, which only now can I start to scratch!
Whilst looking for the right boat we have met many other liveaboards and what a great bunch of contented people they seem to be. We can’t wait to join them.
More on how the boat purchase progresses when we return in two weeks!
Well the house is sold and freedom beckons!
The only remaining challenge on that front is to get the money out of our solicitor’s client account. Funny how they manage to hang onto it for a day or two isn’t it?
SWMBO and I are off on a 7:00am flight tomorrow to the Med to look at our final, final shortlist and expect to make a decision on which of the boats to buy in the coming week. Already one of the owners, of a boat they we checked out earlier in the summer, has revised his selling price and indicated he will accept a price that we think is very “realistic” so we go armed with one good offer already.
It’s been so long in the planning that it feels very unsettling as things start to crystallise and the plan becomes fact. Still we are on track to meet our objective of becoming liveaboards by the carefully chosen date April 1st 2007!
We know we are treading a well-worn path and the tips, from others who have already done it, which we have received from this forum, have been invaluable. The excitement and trepidation are building in equal parts and we both wish we could get on with it and sail away tomorrow.
Our grand plan is to spend a couple of years in the Med and then go off to the Caribbean and beyond. Just how far afield we go will depend on what appetite we have for voyaging once we have been doing it for a while. We have both done loads of sailing at weekends and holidays but we have never lived aboard full time and obviously concerned about whether the reality will match the dream.
However every time the old bottom lip starts to tremble as we think of selling our lovely house and leaving behind good friends and a secure income, we think of the loss of a couple of good friends in recent years and the realisation that its now or never. The understanding that health can also be a limiting factor has reinforced our determination to act now.
The bottom line is “carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero” Seize the day and trust little in the future.
By retiring early in our mid-50s we are exchanging a life that is relatively cash rich but time poor for one on a more modest budget but where our lives will be our own.
Reading Eric Hiscock’s books as a teenager left me with an itch, which only now can I start to scratch!
Whilst looking for the right boat we have met many other liveaboards and what a great bunch of contented people they seem to be. We can’t wait to join them.
More on how the boat purchase progresses when we return in two weeks!
