Errr.... not that I remember!
Because your lunchtime trip to the gym consists of jumping over the side and when you knock off for the day you’re anchored in paradise rather than running to catch a packed train from London Bridge?
See my later post. I started working remotely in 2004 long before smart phones guaranteed internet.
Fortunately I've never worked in London and have never commuted by train. The last few years before my retirement my "commute" was a few meters to get my laptop to the kitchen table for the early morning meeting while I was still having breakfast. No video on that meeting and I was usually in a dressing gown!
How do you cook powdered egg? Is there such a thing as powdered bacon?
Have you tried beef bacon? First came across it in Egypt when working there
Fortunately not.
Kelpie, are you referring to the overheads of the rentals or living aboard?
a) was he happy and b) how many hours a week did he 'work'?I once berthed next to a small, very scruffy, yacht in Vannes whose live-aboard owner told me he earned his living by busking: playing the guitar and singing.
A nice chap and quite a character but if the size and state of his boat were any indication of his prowess as a busker, he wan't vey good at it.
He seemed very happy.
The overheads for the rentals.
Do you live aboard and cruise in the UK or abroad??
Both, we did 5 years in the Med and then around UK and near EU coasts and now planning a winter crossing to the Caribbean and onwards. The nice thing with the Starlink combined with our work means that it makes not the slightest difference where we are in the world other than perhaps a slight lag on emails when over the pond but not enough that they won't be same business day...
I often did masthead tasks for people and used mast height/weather conditions to adjudge whether theirs was a one beer or two beer mast. The only time I actually 'charged' anyone was a chap in Turkey who was a not very good electrical/electronics engineer and who regularly offered to have a look at people's boats and only afterwards mentioned his €40/hr charge; I billed him €60 and then spent it all buying beer for people I knew he'd charged for electronics work.
And in my case Grandchildren... I'd be tempted perhaps more to get away from them sometimes !If my wife and I were to rent out our London house we would have more than enough to fund a very comfortable full-time cruising life. (Well, as comfortable as one can be in a 28' Twister!)
Trouble is, she is not amenable to the idea. She's more interested in golf, book groups, play-readings, theatre-going, lunching with other ladies, etc.
