"slide" wrote in message
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Don't think too badly of them there not knowing the landing on Peanut
Island. I was in and out of Lake Worth for almost a year and never heard
of anyone landing on Peanut.

Are the liveaboard vagabonds still occupying the area east by northeast of
Peanut Island?]

Hi...

The landing on Peanut was to let the girls off. The marina I was looking
for was nearly directly opposite there, NEXT to where I stopped to inquire.

There were several wrecked boats still in the water when we went to fuel at
the muni marina, but we didn't get any further up than that so can't say
about the others. We were among very few boats south of Peanut Island;
we've had most of our areas nearly to ourselves, or literally to ourselves,
in advance of the season down here.

While that deprives us of cruiser companionship, it certainly makes
anchoring easier, and we like the solitude.

Right now it's blowing pretty good for us to move south, and will clock so
we can come back up, with my son and his wife, in the next couple of weeks.
We're keeping our eys on several waves which might develop into serious
weather...

L8R

Skip and crew

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Flying Pig wrote:
"slide" wrote in message


Hi...

The landing on Peanut was to let the girls off. The marina I was looking
for was nearly directly opposite there, NEXT to where I stopped to inquire.

There were several wrecked boats still in the water when we went to fuel at
the muni marina, but we didn't get any further up than that so can't say
about the others. We were among very few boats south of Peanut Island;
we've had most of our areas nearly to ourselves, or literally to ourselves,
in advance of the season down here.

While that deprives us of cruiser companionship, it certainly makes
anchoring easier, and we like the solitude.

Right now it's blowing pretty good for us to move south, and will clock so
we can come back up, with my son and his wife, in the next couple of weeks.
We're keeping our eys on several waves which might develop into serious
weather...

I'd think the migration would already start filing Lake Worth up.
Doesn't the migration start to arrive there in mid Oct? Well, that's
what I thought.

OTOH, having that nice anchorage to yourself ain't all that bad either.
Good sailing and fair winds.

"slide" wrote in message
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I'd think the migration would already start filing Lake Worth up. Doesn't
the migration start to arrive there in mid Oct? Well, that's what I
thought.

OTOH, having that nice anchorage to yourself ain't all that bad either.
Good sailing and fair winds.

Perhaps - but we're in the Bahamas, having left Lake Worth nearly 3 weeks
ago. We're (Lydia, my son and his wife, and me) currently on the Lynyard
Cay west side missing the waves and still getting the wind. Solar and wind
is supplying all our electrical needs currently (pardon the expression).
We'll see if we can reasonably do Sandy Cay tomorrow. We got their feet wet
in snorkel, mask and flips on really boring water up by the beach and walked
a bit of what looks to be a road cut in 20 years ago to see the crashing
surf on the ocean side - glad we're not out there...

L8R

Skip


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Flying Pig wrote:


Perhaps - but we're in the Bahamas, having left Lake Worth nearly 3 weeks
ago. We're (Lydia, my son and his wife, and me) currently on the Lynyard
Cay west side missing the waves and still getting the wind. Solar and wind
is supplying all our electrical needs currently (pardon the expression).
We'll see if we can reasonably do Sandy Cay tomorrow. We got their feet wet
in snorkel, mask and flips on really boring water up by the beach and walked
a bit of what looks to be a road cut in 20 years ago to see the crashing
surf on the ocean side - glad we're not out there...


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.

"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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On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:47:43 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:


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.

In case you're not aware, the bumfuzzles did a decent cost accounting.
Of course YMMV.
http://www.bumfuzzle.com/Pages/Main%20Pages/Cost.html

--Vic

"Vic Smith" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:47:43 -0400, "Flying Pig"
wrote:


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.

In case you're not aware, the bumfuzzles did a decent cost accounting.
Of course YMMV.
http://www.bumfuzzle.com/Pages/Main%20Pages/Cost.html

--Vic

Thanks for the link. It looks like they really boogied, though, to do it
all in just over 3 years!

L8R

Skip and crew, waiting for the wind to die a bit, and waiting for the hummus
to cook...

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On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:34:36 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

In case you're not aware, the bumfuzzles did a decent cost accounting.
Of course YMMV.
http://www.bumfuzzle.com/Pages/Main%20Pages/Cost.html

Seems like their biggest expense category is "other". That's been
our experience also. :-)

Flying Pig wrote:


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 :{))


There seems to be a big gap between what you've been doing and a
circumnav, but running the crescent down to South America or the
circumnav of the Atlantic seems like a reasonable step.

We were chatting up the idea of a run to the Med and then a circumnav of
that with dreams of Italy and Africa glowing in our minds and Ireland /
England on the way. That seems to be further and further away lately due
to the weakness of the dollar. Like if you go to the UK, your dollars
are halved in value as pounds spend like dollars but of course, you need
to use 2 dollars to buy a pound. If we needed any sort of major refit
while in the EC, it may prove ruinous.

The other advantage of going around the Atlantic is that there are many
interesting places to put in. I had spent most of my life sailing the
northern Pacific but then took to the Atlantic finding it much more
enjoyable due to the many harbors all full of history. I never got north
of Nova Scotia or even put in there but that's on the to do list.

OTOH, the weather can be brutal. I experienced a touch of late autumn /
early winter in New England. Let's just say I was impressed.