Are they independently wealthy? They appear to be the very picture of youth
(not kids, but old enough to be my youngest, e.g.), and the list of their
budget is enough to make me squirm, let alone the money they paid, and, most
recently, have paid, yet again, on their boat.

All well and good to say "just go, do it!" like my sig line. But financial
realities might make their adventure a bit challenging to the hoi polloi
(who could, I agree, do a Dave Martin, if they were anxious to go, on a
markedly different budget).

Entertaining at first glance, but those of us who saved all their lives to
not come close to their acquisition and later boat costs might look at it
more like the National Geographic - nice pictures and stories, but unlikely
to be something I'll experience...

For all that, I'm green with envy, not just financially. They're out there
doing it, and I've not yet spent my comms and electrical and nav money, let
alone splashed the boat!

L8R

Skip and Lydia, refitting madly but home briefly, about to return for 5
weeks straight to work on the boat

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Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
"Michael" wrote in message
...
Current multihull Circumnavigation story

http://www.bumfuzzle.com/

"Bumfuzzle / adj. / bewildered or confused; used to refer to something
you don't understand
and have no explanation for.

That pretty much sums up our feelings and also best describes the
reaction of everybody we tell about this adventure.

We, in this case, are Pat and Ali Schulte. The short story is that we
grew up near St. Paul, Minnesota and have been together since we went
to Tartan High School, class of 1992. We married in 1997. In March
of 2000 we moved to Chicago. While in Chicago we came up with this
crazy idea to sail around the world, despite the fact that neither of
us had ever been on a sailboat before. So we took Sailing 101 out on
Lake Michigan, flew to Florida to buy our boat, and here we are."