Retiring from yachting

geem said:
She has just flown back to the UK. He hauls out this week so will be doing all the work himself to put the boat to bed for the summer
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His choice of (intelligent) wife has come back to bite him. :)

I cannot get to grips with putting a bolt to bed for the winter, summer.....??

Jonathan
 
Unfortunately when you're health fails some people have to give up.
It can be a heavy decision to make but if you physicallyget on to a boat then the unfortunate time has come.
 
Stemar said:
There was a guy living on a Nauticat in Haslar who was well into his 90s. He took her out singlehanded quite regularly.
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Mike Ritchie celebrated his 80th birthday single-handing a small boat westbound across the North Atlantic.
Not sure I'd be that hardcore, but it would be great to still be healthy enough to do so at that age.
But when the fun stops, stop... It's cheaper to look at boats on apolloduck than to own them unused.
 
Mister E said:
Unfortunately when you're health fails some people have to give up.
It can be a heavy decision to make but if you physicallyget on to a boat then the unfortunate time has come.
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My 84 year old pal is definitely of the opinion, 'use it or lose it'. He has two new knees and other health issues but keeps going. He kitesurfs and pulls off some pretty good jumps. Absolutely stunning for his age. He is talking about taking up wing foiling. I think I persuaded him that the large sharp object on the bottom of the board may actually kill him. Better stick with the kite surfing🙂
 
geem said:
He is talking about taking up wing foiling. I think I persuaded him that the large sharp object on the bottom of the board may actually kill him.
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Would it matter? I tried to encourage my father to take up smoking again in his 80s to stop him being so grumpy. Better to burn out than to fade away.
 
ffiill said:
At just gone 70 I have finally packed it in.Not a choice due to ill health but something that has crept up on me.
My boat which sold last week after a very protracted sail period of ten years finally sold for a song.
From when I bought it in the Firth of Clyde in 2005 up until 2015 it was in the water 9 out of 10 seasons.
In the autumn of 2015 I left its mooring in Plockton and secured it ashore for the winter and it never went back in.I was away visiting family in Oz.that winter and busy with my seasonal business in the summer.
2017 began with diesel bug which I did not have time to do anything about until early 2018 after another winter in Oz.The following two years passed by and then Covid.
Oh well and I am already looking at Apollo Duck!
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ffiill said:
At just gone 70 I have finally packed it in.Not a choice due to ill health but something that has crept up on me.
My boat which sold last week after a very protracted sail period of ten years finally sold for a song.
From when I bought it in the Firth of Clyde in 2005 up until 2015 it was in the water 9 out of 10 seasons.
In the autumn of 2015 I left its mooring in Plockton and secured it ashore for the winter and it never went back in.I was away visiting family in Oz.that winter and busy with my seasonal business in the summer.
2017 began with diesel bug which I did not have time to do anything about until early 2018 after another winter in Oz.The following two years passed by and then Covid.
Oh well and I am already looking at Apollo Duck!
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As I said it wasn't age or ill health.I mountain bike,hillwalking and swim.However my wife never took to it and it became a bone of contention given the amount of money it cost and went its way!At the time a go anywhere boat and retirement in the Med.was a dream which I thought I would fulfill after the loss of a beautiful cottage which had been promised to me by my auntie-the gardener ended up with half!-don't ask! Oh well!
 
ffiill said:
As I said it wasn't age or ill health.I mountain bike,hillwalking and swim.However my wife never took to it and it became a bone of contention given the amount of money it cost and went its way!At the time a go anywhere boat and retirement in the Med.was a dream which I thought I would fulfill after the loss of a beautiful cottage which had been promised to me by my auntie-the gardener ended up with half!-don't ask! Oh well!
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Life gets in the way
 
geem said:
Smoking isn't very physical. A razor sharp 3 foot long foil and the bottom of the board is a very imminent health risk.
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Either way, the comparison is doing something that gives pleasure despite the risks to life involved, at a point in one's life most people's life expectancy is in single figures.
 
Sold my boat and "swallowed the anchor" in June 21. Lasted until Feb 22 when I bought another. Best thing I ever did.
I am coming up 78.

Probably wont go far in it though I keep thinking of Knox Johnson circumnavigating in a 60ft steel boat at a similar age. And SWMBO has challenged me to circumnavigate the UK. So maybe?
 
I'm doing a major refit of my Fireball- new deck and just about everything else apart from sails to be replaced. I hit 70 next year and am looking forward to having the time to get out racing again.
 
geem said:
My 84 year old pal sails his 57ft yacht and kitesurfs. I would say he was living life to the full
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That was my point... I don't see why he should not do that further by taking up wing foiling just because it might knock a statistical rounding error off his four score and ten.
 
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