kingsebi
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Best decision of my live. If I would have stayed on land I would have long gone insane. How long do you guys liveaboard?
Ooh, could be a big date coming up, better check..... picked this boat up 04/07/2005. Sailed back round to London where I had a house & job and never spent another night in the house. So thought, obviously not interested in that and sold it. Then thought really not interested in working so stopped that as wellBest decision of my live. If I would have stayed on land I would have long gone insane. How long do you guys liveaboard?
Love it. Similar story here. Except I didn’t have a house and a job in the first place. Basically moved onto the first boat out of my car.Ooh, could be a big date coming up, better check..... picked this boat up 04/07/2005. Sailed back round to London where I had a house & job and never spent another night in the house. So thought, obviously not interested in that and sold it. Then thought really not interested in working so stopped that as well
Been absolutely wonderful ever since
All from a chance wander around Foyles bookshop in London having never sailed or set foot on a small boat, brain saw "Sell Up And Sail" 20 feet away and a millisecond later went BOOM - that's a way out, that's how we get out of this before the heart stops beating forever. ❤
True. Dream and reality are two things. I enjoy the self reliance. Made me learn a lot over the years. I see it as a symbiosis. You take care of the boat and the boat takes care of you.i is interesting though, you meet a fair few people who preferred the dream to the uncertainty and need for total self reliance reality. Or home builds where the guy actually enjoys building things more than cruising...
I'm not very good with TLC but if something doesn't work correctly I fix it.True. Dream and reality are two things. I enjoy the self reliance. Made me learn a lot over the years. I see it as a symbiosis. You take care of the boat and the boat takes care of you.
True. Dream and reality are two things. I enjoy the self reliance. Made me learn a lot over the years. I see it as a symbiosis. You take care of the boat and the boat takes care of you.
23 years. Fab.Best decision of my live. If I would have stayed on land I would have long gone insane. How long do you guys liveaboard?
Great summary. Couldn’t have said it any better. What a life!
I'm ever grateful for loving every last bit of it, new places, new cultures, new food, the incredible luxury of having your little house right there in the middle of amazing natural beauty. The social side, the challenges and detox from the constant social conditioning of weeks at sea alone. Life's direction dictated by the weather and seasons instead of money and calendars
Wow, I hope I will make it that long too!Liveaboard since 1987. Cruising since 2000. Now calm, using the boat mostley as a cosy little home. Sailed this morning. Just half a mile but since my boat is engineless its work.
In my experience living on a boat keeps you in good shape. I met many older cruisers that were all remarkably fit for their age.2003 to 2020, so 17 years save for a couple of medical interruptions. Curtailed by Covid travel restrictions and health issues have prevented a re-start; I've more than once pondered whether those issues might've been later in arriving had we continued cruising.
We loved the lifestyle but as mentioned already, it's not for everyone. We felt that many of those we met who didn't take to the life had perhaps left for the wrong reasons, or at least with the wrong mindset:
While liveaboard/cruising might allow you to sail away from some of your problems, it will present you with some new, albeit different ones to deal with.
Same here. Both mentally and physically. Gives you a reason to get up in a universe devoid of meaning.I met many older cruisers that were all remarkably fit for their age.
A great truism is 'You don't get old and stop sailing; you stop sailing and get old.'In my experience living on a boat keeps you in good shape...