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Saint Augustine to Lake Worth, 9/23-24/09
"slide" wrote in message
... 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 -- Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery ! Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it however." (and) "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hand (Richard Bach) |
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