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Subject: [world-cruising] Susy Wagner Hall - re: Closeness
cmckesson@XXX.XXX
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 11:21:00 EDT
Greetings. I have been listening in on this conversation for some time,
but only now decided to jump in: re: Cabin Fever.
We three (father / mother / 15 yo daughter) have been living aboard a
Columbia 36 sailboat for 3 years now. We have sailed from the State of
Washington down to Ensenada Baja California. Not very far for three
years, but we took it very slow and spent as much time as we wanted in all
the wonderful ports on the way. We lived in San Francisco for 9 months.
We lived in Monterey for three weeks. We lived in San Diego for three
months. How many other wonderful places have we enjoyed, which we would
never be able to do with a conventional land lifestyle.
Cabin fever has never been a problem - and we moved aboard directly from a
5-bedroom suburban home. You are not "cooped up" and it is most
definitely not the same as staying in the house for a week. Maybe it
would be more like staying on the back porch for a week. The horizon is
infinite. The scenery is ever-changing.
The nearest we come to cabin fever is when we have been in one place for
too long - like more than two weeks. We get itchy feet. We've seen this
view before. Oh, certainly there is delight in watching the seasons
change, but that pace is a little too slow even for me. But the moves
don't need to be big to be satisfying. When we were in San Francisco we
moved every two weeks...sometimes just a matter of five miles. New
neighbors, new shopping districts, bus routes, local bird colonies, wind
patterns, everything...and all as the result of ten minutes work to untie
and re-tie a few ropes.
We are in a bit of a pressure right now, because we just shipped our boat
from Mexico to Vancouver BC Canada, and the change in weather is, well,
dramatic! We had a nice sunny day yesterday and we were all three out on
deck taking a sun break! But really I must say that in three years this
issue of "closed up and confined" has really never been an issue - and
that's with a teenager and a small boat.
Oh: For your database: Our boat cost $20k. We added about $10k of gear
and upgrades to her. Our cruising budget is about $1k/ month. I am an
engineer and can fix most things, and we take it slow and easy.
Chris McKesson
s/y SUNDANCE
currently: Blaine WA
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