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From: Kurt Reno (no email)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 13:39:23 EDT
Oh boy, wife says GO!. Its taken two days for that to sink in. Does she
really mean it? I think so. All of my life I have dreamed of extended
cruising and the wife says GO? That means s#!t or get off the pot, what the, I
have been caught totally off guard.
I am an engineer who decided to become a house husband and let my wife's
career take off while I played child care and house cleaning. I have totally
redone our home to very high standards so there is very little maintenance and
my daughter just started driving. That leaves me essentially free. Oh boy,
even that hasn't sunk in yet.
I am a minimalist by choice, I have what I call the perfect trailerable
trawler and will have it ready by fall. My father was going to take it and
cruise the great loop but is really not in good enough health. I could go
with him. I have to print that again so I can see it twice. "I COULD GO WITH
HIM". There, I see it again.
Now what? One of the things that I have discovered about life is that with an
imagination you can literally go anywhere on a trip in your mind. Behind this
computer and with the help of the TWL I have already gone through the
northwest passage, Ice Free I might add. Never do you experience REAL
discomfort and the COST is always nothing, there is never anything to fix ,
the sun is always shining and the breezes fair.
Now what? The real thing? Complete with all the DISCOMFORTS and COSTS? Oh
boy, the rubber meets the rode. Better to look at reality and settle on maybe
south Florida instead of the northwest passage. A budget of maybe $500 to
$600 a month. I think that I will first try about 6 to 8 weeks. I will take
off after I teach an annual ski academy at Snowbird Utah in early February.
Ah no, better to wait until after ski season, say March 15th?
I have the skills but no salt water experience. I grew up on northern Lake
Michigan. I have sailed thousands of hours on the Great Lakes without the aid
of electronics. As far as navigation, I have a multi-engine commercial
instrument rating in airplanes. As far as fixing things. I can fix anything
for next to nothing without a manual. House husband extraordinare.
I've been caught off guard. I guess I need a better plan than dreaming behind
a computer eh! I guess though that cruising south Florida is not really a
blue water experience requiring tons of planning. Maybe its as simple as pack
up the cooler and go.
Thanks for listening, I need more time to sort things out and get a reality
check.
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