nym
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So I've been lurking for a while but this is my first post..
I have my day skipper practical but start feeling nervous if my husband should happen to go below decks for more than a few minutes. I clearly need more practice to try and gain confidence.
My husband has no paper qualifications but has sucessfully skippered us on flotilla and charter holidays.
We are now lucky enough to be approaching early retirement with the possibility of buying a house by the coast
and a boat. We dream of 'crusing the world' but realistically we both need to gain far more expertise.
So two questions..
Where would you start house hunting? We would love to actually be on the coast - probably in the South or South West. It would be great if the boat could be moored reasonably close to where we bought the house.
It would also be important to me to be in a reasonably sized town with a nice 'feel' to it, with shops and other non-boaty things to do.
What boat would you buy? We will nearly always be sailing two handed. We could probably spend up to £50000
I guess that the boat to learn/practice on would not necessarily be the boat that we would want in the long term for extended crusing (?) but if were possible to contemplate both objectives with the same boat that would clearly be an advantage.
Thanks for any ideas
I have my day skipper practical but start feeling nervous if my husband should happen to go below decks for more than a few minutes. I clearly need more practice to try and gain confidence.
My husband has no paper qualifications but has sucessfully skippered us on flotilla and charter holidays.
We are now lucky enough to be approaching early retirement with the possibility of buying a house by the coast
and a boat. We dream of 'crusing the world' but realistically we both need to gain far more expertise.
So two questions..
Where would you start house hunting? We would love to actually be on the coast - probably in the South or South West. It would be great if the boat could be moored reasonably close to where we bought the house.
It would also be important to me to be in a reasonably sized town with a nice 'feel' to it, with shops and other non-boaty things to do.
What boat would you buy? We will nearly always be sailing two handed. We could probably spend up to £50000
I guess that the boat to learn/practice on would not necessarily be the boat that we would want in the long term for extended crusing (?) but if were possible to contemplate both objectives with the same boat that would clearly be an advantage.
Thanks for any ideas