Thanks everyone!

Excellent! I spoke with the previous owner, an excellent chap, and it's pretty clear to me that he feels he has a duty of care for you so if anything goes wrong I am pretty sure he will lose no time in rushing over to Greece to help you out :-)

all the best!
 
Good luck - I wish we were off too but looks like another year Living but not crusing........

P.S. - anyone know how to (legally) get two grown up kids to support themselves!!! was much easier when they were kids - we just took (or apparently now forced!) them with us....... /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
Do you really want to discuss problem of how to sail away while also retaining good relationships with children and all the other people in your life? There is a thread at the moment on Scuttlebut following similar theme - headed something like 'give me one good reason not to'. A lot of comment is the rather glib 'go for it', 'live the dream', 'you don't want to live regretting not doing it' sort of stuff which just glosses over the issues really......fact is life can be difficult for young adult children these days - like getting somehwere affordable to live for instance.....what do you do... just sail away and ignore it?
 
I think what got me on the Scuttlebut discussion was all the simplistic, gung-ho 'go for it', 'only got one chance' kind of advice to the wannabee liveaboard with young adult kids and relatively limited funds. Your experience demonstrates that things aint always that easy on the relationships front. But noone ever really talks about all that on these sites. It's only evident in the throwaway remark and the occasional bad joke. In one way not surprising - we are British, and mostly blokes after all, and it is only a boating discussion forum, and I don't want say things in bad taste.....But often these relationship issues are the ignored elephant in the room.....
 
My two are happy when im off sailing as they get the houses to them selves.When i was home for to long my son mentioned that other parents worked abroad??

I had mine onboard both prefer our motor boats??? To our sailing ones?? Thought there not wrong when there not paying the costs!

If you brought them up to know your true financal limits it should be safe enough to give them an allowence and a visa in case, Mine have never abused it,in fact my son flew up to Berlin to see a girl friend who is based ther for a 6 month training with a charity?? anyway i told him he could eat out on my card and he dident!!Same went while he was in London!

I give mine my location and they come to visit,then we spend time as tourist or sail!

Today with email phone and sms staying in touch couldent be easier mostly we use sms,we have 60 free PM i just told mine i will be away at least untill the 29 may when ill be back for a couple of days.

Good luck with your small ones (i wouldent say that to my daughter girls want to be grown up??)And enjoy your sailing, you can still live aboard not to far away? Transport in France and some other contries is very inexpensive (train)
 
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fact is life can be difficult for young adult children these days - like getting somehwere affordable to live for instance.....what do you do... just sail away and ignore it?

[/ QUOTE ]No.... I'd sail away, but not ignore it.... While, like any parent, I'll do all I can to support and help my children, I often feel that children are too mollycoddled these days... we have friends with kids at home still who 'can't afford' to buy or rent, yet still manage to go out partying every friday and saturday, probably spending £40 or more a night.... the hard lessons of life, that sometimes sacrifices need making are often forgotten by todays young adult generation I feel...
 
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