captainslarty
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Heres a little test.. we did it, but then again we are all different. Surely most fancy the life, but mayne not....
Please be as honest as possible..
Just for fun..
Please be as honest as possible..
Just for fun..
Sell up and bugger offf
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jimbaerselman
New member
You left out the 'will do it'
jimi
Well-known member
hmmm.. surely yes and no should be mutually exclusive? Fundamental polling flaw?
pyrojames
Well-known member
And the already done it. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
capnsensible
Well-known member
Yeah, where's the did it 9 years ago box??
captainslarty
N/A
Naw, see next /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
pyrojames
Well-known member
That's the one I need!
captainslarty
N/A
Will do it..
hMMM, SEEMS LIKE THE OLDEST EXCUSE IN THE BOOK.
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Lots n Lots of WILL do its.. the way to become a HAVE done it is to get rid of the WILL (Will attaches constraints)
The hardest thing is simply to make the decision to ACTUALLY do it, the rest is absolutely simple... throw off the old life, the social constraints, the ´what ifs´the I need to have x amount in the bank etc etc... live for today, cos whaen you die, and you SURELY will, you will be regretting things... it really is simple, just turn your back, learn new things, forget accumulating. just accumulate experiences, worth more than gold.
hMMM, SEEMS LIKE THE OLDEST EXCUSE IN THE BOOK.
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Lots n Lots of WILL do its.. the way to become a HAVE done it is to get rid of the WILL (Will attaches constraints)
The hardest thing is simply to make the decision to ACTUALLY do it, the rest is absolutely simple... throw off the old life, the social constraints, the ´what ifs´the I need to have x amount in the bank etc etc... live for today, cos whaen you die, and you SURELY will, you will be regretting things... it really is simple, just turn your back, learn new things, forget accumulating. just accumulate experiences, worth more than gold.
HoratioHB
New member
How about - doing it, in that a bloody great cheque was cashed by the broker today. Boat is delivered in 10 days and should hit the BVIs (not literally) 20 Nov. Ie not done it but can't go back now!! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
PhilipH
Member
cor, wot a smug bu**er you are - we all have to plan, you included, but those of us still planning including firm dates just don't cut the mustard yet, eh????
jimboaw
New member
Same place as the "did it 10 years ago"box?
bilbobaggins
N/A
May I share this little newsletter with you? I helped build this boat, in a small way.....
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Subject: Fwd: "Land Ho!"
<"Ann>
I moved aboard a 28 foot monohull sail boat full time in 1989 and cruised solo on the US east coast, Bahamas, and Bermuda before making the trans Atlantic in 1991. Nev joined me in England, and we sailed back to America together in 1993 - 4, married in 1995 and lived on a British canal barge while we built our catamaran in England. Having sailed the New catamaran to the US east coast in 2002 - 3, we now are typical snow birds sailing between Rhode Island in the summer and Bahamas in the winter. For me it has been almost 20 years living aboard the various boats.
Life is good, but we grow older. We had been thinking a lot about old age and how to plan for it. House prices seemed out of sight and we did not know what to do. We looked at mobile homes, barges, and worried a lot.
Finally John **** told us that he did not understand our worry because he had put our names down to inherit his house many years ago... That news simply blew us away. It took several days for the full implication to set in. Our futures are assured and there is no need to worry any more about making an old age "nest" for ourselves.
This summer John paid off the last of the mortgage, put on a new roof, and a new drive way. The furnace is recent, windows too, and Nev made drains so the basement is dry. His work shop is great down there. John suggested we move in now for the summers so we have part time done that and Nev built a new ballister for the front porch and did countless odd jobs. The drains are clear and we have cleaned the basement. *** BOUGHT A LAWN MOWER!!! If you need to write us, the
address forever more will be 19 ***************** We three get on fine, all the kids and grand kids are comfy visiting there, and the summer mooring is only 20 minutes away, so it is perfect.
So there is life after cruising and we are prepared for it even though we are now getting Peace IV ready for her annual trip south as usual. We have a new sail cover for our new main sail, and the engines are now ready for local cruising again after being off the boat for major overhaul.
They always say that a boat is a hole in the water into which you pour money... well, let me tell you about houses! LOTS more money is needed. Like property tax, winter heat bills, and much more in the way of maintenence. Our catamaran heats by latitude, has no property tax, and all the maintenance is our own work. There was no boat mortgage either. Lucky for us, the house and all its high maintenence and tax bills are still John's and we only visit him.
Lucky John, the boat and all its work lists are still ours, and he is welcome to visit at any time.
But you cannot live forever on a boat. Eventually you must settle down. Now we will most likely sail another couple of years and then look for someone to buy Peace IV. We launched this boat in 2002 and have sailed over 30,000 nautical miles in her, so by now she is pretty well finished with her sea trials and we have her pretty well settled into the cruising - live aboard groove. We continue with the upgrades while trying to retain the simplicity but admit the new electric windlass and other geriatric upgrades have been more of a help than we ever imagined. When we look back at our photos of the build, we see many pictures of Wharrams visiting us and guiding us.
They designed their best boat when they made the Tiki 46 and we are lucky to have a couple more years to live aboard her.
But with our old age ashore in sight, I got two seed catalogs delivered to the house in my name and found myself eagerly leafing through the pages at all the perennials. I have started collecting small, used crystal vases and other silly things at the Salvation Army stores to put in the windows. Crystal and other glassware is forbidden at sea where broken glass could too easily get into bare feet. But now ashore it is allowed and I have been gardening most days too.
Today we finished all the house projects for this year and are now planning to be boat based again for the rest of the summer while we do some local sailing and plan for our trip south. We moved a lot of stuff to John's so Peace is lighter in the water and there is more room in the lockers too.
But the future is good, the present is good, and **** just declared that it is time for a glass of wine, so I guess I will sign off now and join him.
All the best,
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Thots, peepul?
[ QUOTE ]
Subject: Fwd: "Land Ho!"
<"Ann>
I moved aboard a 28 foot monohull sail boat full time in 1989 and cruised solo on the US east coast, Bahamas, and Bermuda before making the trans Atlantic in 1991. Nev joined me in England, and we sailed back to America together in 1993 - 4, married in 1995 and lived on a British canal barge while we built our catamaran in England. Having sailed the New catamaran to the US east coast in 2002 - 3, we now are typical snow birds sailing between Rhode Island in the summer and Bahamas in the winter. For me it has been almost 20 years living aboard the various boats.
Life is good, but we grow older. We had been thinking a lot about old age and how to plan for it. House prices seemed out of sight and we did not know what to do. We looked at mobile homes, barges, and worried a lot.
Finally John **** told us that he did not understand our worry because he had put our names down to inherit his house many years ago... That news simply blew us away. It took several days for the full implication to set in. Our futures are assured and there is no need to worry any more about making an old age "nest" for ourselves.
This summer John paid off the last of the mortgage, put on a new roof, and a new drive way. The furnace is recent, windows too, and Nev made drains so the basement is dry. His work shop is great down there. John suggested we move in now for the summers so we have part time done that and Nev built a new ballister for the front porch and did countless odd jobs. The drains are clear and we have cleaned the basement. *** BOUGHT A LAWN MOWER!!! If you need to write us, the
address forever more will be 19 ***************** We three get on fine, all the kids and grand kids are comfy visiting there, and the summer mooring is only 20 minutes away, so it is perfect.
So there is life after cruising and we are prepared for it even though we are now getting Peace IV ready for her annual trip south as usual. We have a new sail cover for our new main sail, and the engines are now ready for local cruising again after being off the boat for major overhaul.
They always say that a boat is a hole in the water into which you pour money... well, let me tell you about houses! LOTS more money is needed. Like property tax, winter heat bills, and much more in the way of maintenence. Our catamaran heats by latitude, has no property tax, and all the maintenance is our own work. There was no boat mortgage either. Lucky for us, the house and all its high maintenence and tax bills are still John's and we only visit him.
Lucky John, the boat and all its work lists are still ours, and he is welcome to visit at any time.
But you cannot live forever on a boat. Eventually you must settle down. Now we will most likely sail another couple of years and then look for someone to buy Peace IV. We launched this boat in 2002 and have sailed over 30,000 nautical miles in her, so by now she is pretty well finished with her sea trials and we have her pretty well settled into the cruising - live aboard groove. We continue with the upgrades while trying to retain the simplicity but admit the new electric windlass and other geriatric upgrades have been more of a help than we ever imagined. When we look back at our photos of the build, we see many pictures of Wharrams visiting us and guiding us.
They designed their best boat when they made the Tiki 46 and we are lucky to have a couple more years to live aboard her.
But with our old age ashore in sight, I got two seed catalogs delivered to the house in my name and found myself eagerly leafing through the pages at all the perennials. I have started collecting small, used crystal vases and other silly things at the Salvation Army stores to put in the windows. Crystal and other glassware is forbidden at sea where broken glass could too easily get into bare feet. But now ashore it is allowed and I have been gardening most days too.
Today we finished all the house projects for this year and are now planning to be boat based again for the rest of the summer while we do some local sailing and plan for our trip south. We moved a lot of stuff to John's so Peace is lighter in the water and there is more room in the lockers too.
But the future is good, the present is good, and **** just declared that it is time for a glass of wine, so I guess I will sign off now and join him.
All the best,
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Thots, peepul?
Slow_boat
New member
How about 'Will do it and have set a date?'
Sixpence
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Thots, peepul?
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That is one option, if you're lucky enough to inherit a home.
There is a crusty old cruiser that has been holed up in Chaguaramas for many years now. Every evening, he comes ashore, sits with a few fellow cruisers at the Table of Infinite Wisdom and knocks back a few beers. When I first met him in Dec 2004, he said that this life was better than an old age home in Sweden, where his kids are doing their best to relieve him of his money. He was sure he would die in Chaguaramas and a few days later, someone from the ToIW would noticed his absence and go aboard his boat and find it smelling of something other than damp and Eric's incontinence.
I was back in Chaguaramas in April last year and I asked the regulars at the ToIW about Eric. A few days earlier, pissed, he had fallen out of his dingy. Being his age, he had no chance of getting back aboard, and so drifted passed all the boats anchored in Chagauramas bay, whilst hanging on. His dingy hit the very furtherest boat from the shore and by sheer luck, the owners were aboard. They hauled him back aboard his dingy and he set off back to his boat. If he had missed their boat, well Eric would just be a memory and he would have died without the suffering of any of the dreaded diseases.
Give me say, another 25 years of cruising, followed by a few years at anchor in Chagauramas, and I quite fancy following in his footsteps, but missing the last boat.
Thots, peepul?
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That is one option, if you're lucky enough to inherit a home.
There is a crusty old cruiser that has been holed up in Chaguaramas for many years now. Every evening, he comes ashore, sits with a few fellow cruisers at the Table of Infinite Wisdom and knocks back a few beers. When I first met him in Dec 2004, he said that this life was better than an old age home in Sweden, where his kids are doing their best to relieve him of his money. He was sure he would die in Chaguaramas and a few days later, someone from the ToIW would noticed his absence and go aboard his boat and find it smelling of something other than damp and Eric's incontinence.
I was back in Chaguaramas in April last year and I asked the regulars at the ToIW about Eric. A few days earlier, pissed, he had fallen out of his dingy. Being his age, he had no chance of getting back aboard, and so drifted passed all the boats anchored in Chagauramas bay, whilst hanging on. His dingy hit the very furtherest boat from the shore and by sheer luck, the owners were aboard. They hauled him back aboard his dingy and he set off back to his boat. If he had missed their boat, well Eric would just be a memory and he would have died without the suffering of any of the dreaded diseases.
Give me say, another 25 years of cruising, followed by a few years at anchor in Chagauramas, and I quite fancy following in his footsteps, but missing the last boat.