Sea Change
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A bit over three years. I suddenly feel like a complete newbie having read this thread!
Ten years liveaboard
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gardener
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Well done Sea Change you will be amazed how fast the years go by, take the time to enjoy them
capnsensible
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Sorry, just seen this! We live nearby now.Are you still in Rubicon Lanzarote? I’m over here for the next 4 weeks.
Ian.S
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No problem, are you still teaching out here or have you retired?
capnsensible
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Still doing a lot of boat stuff but not teaching now.
ashtead
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Have just returned from visiting Lanzarote and took up a couple of the capn suggested eating venues -he was spot on with the Sergio suggestion but sadly I won’t be suggesting anyone visits bar one in the marina . Many thanks though for Sergio in the small town -it looks nothing from outside but the Italian operators know how to cook so thought should record positive view.
geem
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I took early retirement at 50 in 2014. Apart from 2 stints when we sail home for family reasons and to do some boat refit work, we have been aboard. 44,00nm since 2014. The best decision we ever made. I have had the best years of my life since I retired. We have made lifelong friends along the way
richardh10
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We moved aboard in 2016 and have been doing a slow circumnavigation since then. We recently left the boat in South Africa to return a key to UK for family reasons, and for the first time I was looking forward to it and wondering if maybe it would be time to call it a day when we got back. This may have been a reaction to a somewhat challenging passage from Madagascar but after a few weeks back I've practically been climbing the walls and can't wait to get back to the boat. However, I'm nearly 70, and realise this can't go on forever especially as my wife has definitely had enough - and a grandchild has arrived - so I'm following the singlehanded thread with interest
BobnLesley
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Perhaps the most often voiced reason for the ladies deciding that it's time to call it a day
greeny
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Happened to me, 2 grandkids and stupidly bought a house. Guess where she prefers to live. She's not been on the sailing boat for 3 years but occasionally comes out on the rib - only if the grandkids are with me.
westernman
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Is that 44 nautical miles or 44 nano-metres since 2014.
Either way I do more than that in a weekend.
dslittle
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And how long in the tin can before that???
capnsensible
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20 years in the Submarine Service. Seems like yesterday.
Alicatt
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Met a retired tin can sailor last night at a music evening at Garelochhead, he is a friend of a friend, interesting chap, we have been a lot of places at the same time but never met before.
We were told to keep it down as the musicians wanted to play
We were told to keep it down as the musicians wanted to play
geem
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Typo
44kelenya
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Been living onboard since 1984. Doesn't seem that long really but I guess it is. Various marinas, boatyards moorings and anchored while cruising and working. Wouldn't change it for anything... well maybe for a...
Bajansailor
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Maybe for a catamaran? Or a mobo? Or......?
geem
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HouseMaybe for a catamaran? Or a mobo? Or......?
NBs
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Our boat is our home for seven months of the year while we travel around the Baltic Sea. We live in a house for five months, and the boat is stored in a warm warehouse, because the winter here is dark and snowy, and the sea freezes over. The idea is to sell the house and move somewhere where the sea does not freeze in winter and return to the archipelago in summer, which is such an incredible paradise for boating.