Getting back to reality

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Many years ago someone told me that once you have gone off cruising, it is nearly impossible to come back and settle down again.

Not me I said to myself knowing that I can adjust to anything. How wrong can I be? I've been back for two months now and have never felt so deflated, demotivated and disinterested in absolutely everything.

Has this happened to any of you that have been cruising and then tried to settle back into a life on the hard?
 
Hi John

Yes, it's tough.

Even after our relatively short cruise, my mind keeps flicking back to different events/places - and we just want to get back there.

Magic
 
Never mind cruising, this happens to most of us every time we get back from a fortnight's holiday. Look on the bright side, you've at least started your cruise, while most of us were still stuck here. You'll be back out there soon too. Lucky bugger!

How long are you prepared to wait for Stingo to sell before you get back out there? What's plan B?

Keep your chin up /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
don't worry, you'll get back into the rut in time. every day you spend ashore makes it that little bit harder to break out again.
 
Re: help for stingo

I wonder if perhaps you are having trouble remebering just how much of a useless disinterested and demotivated layabout you were before you went? I mean, despite everything being ready, you managed to hang about for two years or more before leaving. See?

Also, long-term cruising is well-known to heighten one's self-awareness. Thus, now after having returned, you may well feel as though you have suddenly become a good-for-nothing moody mouthy git - but to everyone else you've hardly changed!

Hope this helps :-)
 
Been back seven months, after Hurricane Ivan wrecked our boat. Insurance payout means we have lost a massive amount.

We have had a wonderful baby boy in the meantime and can't wait to show him the cruising life.

So now have a child, lost nearly 40% of the money we invested, would we go again? You bet, it is utterly priceless.

Cruising is not all roses, sometimes it is very, very hard. But trying to fit back in to the treadmill of what now seems a mindnumbing routine just magnifies how much can be learnt living the cruising life. As for having television again.............it is a thief of time.

For me, real life is now out there. Help from your fellow man is a given, then you pass it on. Back on land that is just not the case.

Sorry Stingo it does not get any easier the longer you are back. Far from it.

Cruising is a deeply humbling spiritually experience, not for every one, but a life changing event. I will be eternally grateful for the privilege.
 
Will move back aboard Stingo as soon as I can and then buy the cat once Stingo is sold. That is Plan B.
 
Re: help for stingo

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...you may well feel as though you have suddenly become a good-for-nothing moody mouthy git....

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You know me better than I know myself
 
I would imagine a boat will sell easier if someone is living aboard. I know in my opinion and purchasing experiance I preferred it when the owner was living on board as the boat is generally better maintained.

Why not live aboard Stingo until sold and then move on? Is it a case of the boat having to be in one location?

Perhaps a touchy question, but is Stingo realistically priced? (Too lazy to check out your web site right now - I do think I looked in the past and felt it was fair price). I know of a few boats that have been on the market for years - does not make sence asking silly prices if you really want to sell. But then, you been in it much longer than me so yo know better than me.

Have you had much interest in Stingo?

Cheers
Charles

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16 days to go, but whos counting /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
It was a bit flat after our trip round Ireland. However, have been totally unable to cope since our two week jolly to the Caribbean Nov/Oct - can only imagine how it must be to come back after several months / a year . . .

John, you need to go all the way round - it is the only cure.

- Nick
 
After being back a year in the UK from my sailing adventure across the pond and in the Carribean I have finally gone back to working for a "real company". This has involved sitting behind a desk and being stuck inside. I hate feeling so restricted!! I am working in the marine industry which has softened the blow a littlw though. When I look back to this time last year I swore to myself then that i would never do a deck job again. I feel like I have let myself down!
 
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