"slide" wrote in message
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What are your global plans? Do you think you will just live out your lives
floating about a triangle described roughly by Miami, Bahamas and Georgia?
Or is this something to do for a few years and then you'll return to land?
Or will you set off further afield someday?
I personally would be pretty content within that triangle if I had the
passive income to support my little family.
Currently, we do have the passive income to stay frugally afloat and still
handle the emergency large outlays such as the new standing rigging we did
recently, but, of course, that's also subject to change. So, we stay very
frugal and try to build the cruising kitty rather than just stay stagnant.
We have no global plans, but we have been tossing around the idea of a
circumnav. That would involve a great deal larger kitty, I expect, and,
other realities intruding, Lydia's now talking about flying home not less
than once a year to get her grandkid fix, his parents being unwilling to
live the boat life, and not being able to afford hotel stays, at least where
we're going to be for the near future.
However, back to the circumnav, there's so much to see and do locally, that,
other than just going around for the sake of doing it, we may well decide
that we're content in this area. Lydia's mom and sister live in England, an
Atlantic circumnav might be fun. Certainly a Caribbean circumnav is
feasible, and if so, we might find ourselves back in the US.
That said, with the proviso that everything in cruising is subject to
change, we do not expect to have the boat back in the lower 48 before we get
off it for good.
We'll do the Bahamas for at least a year, and then head down the thorny path
(see above about plans!) and play in the EC, where we originally expected to
be when the wreck finally convinced Lydia that perhaps doing the east coast
at least once would be a good idea :{))
So, that's the "plan" - but stay tuned for the reality :{))
L8R
Skip
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