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From: Dwight Yachuk (no email)
Date: Tue Oct 04 2005 - 07:57:07 EDT
Esther,
A number of questions to consider:
1) You say go sailing. Where, for how long, alone or with others, coastal, caribbean or blue water???
2) What experience do you have? What experience do you need?
The question I ask people all the time is to match there aspirations against their abilities. Getting them to detail their aspirations is usually the difficult part as often they have no idea of what they are getting themselves into. You sound determined enough to be able to learn the abilities once you've figured out the aspirations.
My adive is to get out there and sail, sail, sail. Join your local yacht club and volunteer to crew as much as possible and learn, learn, learn. Next buy your own pocket cruiser, what ever is the appropriate size for Lake Mead or wherever you are.
While you're figuring out how to handle and live aboard your little boat in your local area, start researching boats, boats, boats that would be appropriate
for the area you want to live aboard in or cruise in.
Read as much as possible on the internet. Join the seven seas cruising group and others and learn from them.
I suggest taking the AYA learn to cruise courses. You could take a week long course down in the BVI's or somewhere nice like that to see if that's what you like.
While looking at boats, you should consider catamarans. They're more expensive that a similar sized monohull but certainly worth it as a live aboard or cruiser in my humble opinion.
Money may not be an object but I'd suggest investing in a second hand boat. Buy one that's sea ready as opposed to one with problems or god forbid, a project boat which will cost you much more than the price of the boat. Make sure it's well surveyed before even considering purchasing.
I could write pages but that's a start.
As a personal plug, my friend Bill and I have a Jeanneau Lagoon 37 catamaran in the caribbeans. Bill lives aboard (I'm stuck at a desk working) and takes passengers aboard for a week or two to generate some monies to help pay for the boat expenses. If you'd like to try a week live aboard on a cat in the West Indies this winter let me know and I'll send you Bill's eddress.
Good luck living aboard. I'll be there in about 7 years and counting.
dwight yachuk
-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:]On Behalf Of
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 1:14 AM
To: LiveAboard
Subject: Re: lv-ab: Am I being stupid?
I did some sailing on Lake Mead many years ago but it
was only a 25 ft Venture. I think i can handle the
physical part of sailing but i realize i will need
something bigger for living in. I'm comfortable with
engines, my brother and i rebuilt the engine in our
first car, a 1929 essex (back in the 60s).
I have some friends back on the east coast that used
to go cruising but i think they were hit by one of the
hurricanes. I will try and see what they are doing.
Esther
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Mochnacki"
<>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 11:46 PM
Subject: Re: lv-ab: Am I being stupid?
>
> Hi Esther,
>
> You certainly should be able to handle a sailboat of
about 30 feet in
> length, provided your hands are in good shape. If
you don't have much
> sailing experience, I urge you to get involved as a
crew member in a club
> situation (e.g. racing around the cans every week).
>
> Where are you located? If you have little boating
experience, a Power
> Squadron or similar course is very useful. With some
experience, crewing on
> longer voyages becomes an option, or doing charters
with other people. This
> sort of experience will allow you to make the right
choices in buying and
> using your own boat. And you will get to know lots
of people.
>
> There is a vast literature on the subject; have you
read much about sailing,
> living aboard and cruising?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stefan
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 08:18:57PM -0700,
wrote:
> > I'm a healthy single female in my late 50's. I
want
> > to sell my condo and go sailing. I checked out
> > trawlers but decided they were too big and
expensive
> > for what i really need. Could i handle a sail
boat.
> > Is this a practical goal?
> >
> > Esther
>
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