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Transitioning to Full-Time Liveaboard Lifestyle
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Shasta_man
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DennisS
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Best of luck with your endeavor
Appreciate it Dennis! I find your slogan interesting and can certainly see the truth in that for a lot of people. When I first started dreaming of sailing the world, I would walk up and down the beach looking out at the ocean and then wonder how it will feel when I'm smack dab in the middle of it and can't do that! I love the waves rolling in and I love the coast too. Taking up diving, however, pushed my dream to another level and all I can think about is setting sail to see the world! It's not for the desire of being in the middle of the Atlantic, it's for the desire of making it into the next port
How long ago was your circumnavigation? Still living on a boat?
How long ago was your circumnavigation? Still living on a boat?
BluewaterSail
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Good luck to you. I was a liveaboard for 6 years, and it was a phenomenal experience. Didn't quite make it to the goal of circumnavigation from New York, though, because I hit some rocks in a harbor in Sri Lanka and the boat sunk during the towing-off-the-rocks operation.
Its hard to fund such an adventure. I stopped for the southern hemisphere hurricane season in New Zealand and got a job once, after realizing that my expenses exceeded what I had set aside. Other cruisers did other things. If you are relying on contributions for financing, you might try to come up with ways to work to make money along the way, just in case enough people don't contribute.
Its hard to fund such an adventure. I stopped for the southern hemisphere hurricane season in New Zealand and got a job once, after realizing that my expenses exceeded what I had set aside. Other cruisers did other things. If you are relying on contributions for financing, you might try to come up with ways to work to make money along the way, just in case enough people don't contribute.
DennisS
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Appreciate it Dennis! I find your slogan interesting and can certainly see the truth in that for a lot of people. When I first started dreaming of sailing the world, I would walk up and down the beach looking out at the ocean and then wonder how it will feel when I'm smack dab in the middle of it and can't do that! I love the waves rolling in and I love the coast too. Taking up diving, however, pushed my dream to another level and all I can think about is setting sail to see the world! It's not for the desire of being in the middle of the Atlantic, it's for the desire of making it into the next port
How long ago was your circumnavigation? Still living on a boat?
Our circumnavigation took about a year, I'm retired and go out once or twice a year. My liveaboard was 273 foot long, I was a tech on an oceanographic research ship. I spent about 25 years at sea, the ports are the best part. It wasn't too shabby, my own cabin, hot water, air conditioning, waking up to the smell of coffee and bacon every morning, no rent, no food bill, overtime weekends, 20-30 new scientists/techs/grad students every month. Deck dept kept everything looking good, engineers kept everything running, officers steered the boat, techs got to play with the cool gear. That was the good part. 30-45 days at sea gets old no matter what.
Sorry to hear about the sinking...but sounds like you still had an adventure! I know it will be hard to fund such a lifestyle and we have a few things in place to get us there. For starters, I work from home and only need a phone/internet connection and can work from anywhere. Problem there is Satellite airtime is too expensive to rely on for the amount of hours I put in each week. We can use it for our longer passages, but then will need to arrange for local coverage in the places we land. Hopefully, satellite will become more affordable over the next couple of years. So, that is our starting point. Ideally, what we'd like to do is make a living teaching diving, chartering, or something along those lines. Writing the blog also brings in a little from advertisers and contributions. It may turn into something more if we can manage to get anything published. Mainly, we just want to share our experiences with others and get feedback like this, so thank you for your input. We appreciate all we can get
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I'm envious! If I had it to do all over again, I would have gone that path or something similar. As a kid, I always wanted to do something with marine life, but somehow got sidetracked along the way and ended up a teacher and now I'm caught up in the nightmare of Corporate America! Not exactly work that I am passionate about, but it does allow me a lot of freedom since I work from home. I can't imagine how 30-45 days at sea can get old with all that you described above. That sounds like a dream come true to me!
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