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From: John Drayton (no email)
Date: Sun Nov 28 2004 - 13:19:31 EST
Mike,
Sounds like a great approach to me. That copper bottom
must have been really expensive! It will be
interesting to see how that copper bottom works
especially the farther South you go. Could help you
with the worms in the very warm water or, maybe if a
fastener gets loose, provide a way for them to get
into the wood and not be seen until some real damage
has been done. I hope as you decide things, that you
will pass them on to the list. You could be the "test
lab" for the rest of us. :-)
I congratulate you for being able to do it and
actually doing it. I sincerely hope that your schedule
doesn't lengthen and could perhaps compress so that
you can experience the adventure earlier than planned.
Not picking on you at all but just wondering "out
loud" kind of. (Perhaps I should change the subject
line.) I sometimes wonder why more of us don't do this
as well. And then I think that many of us are in the
"nether ages" that has us uncertain if we REALLY want
to do that, too young to have the money to
realistically get started with it or, old enough to
have the money but are worried about the retirement
age and not having anything to fall back on.
Come to think of it, I now fall into that last, quasi
old fart, category. I've had my share of physical
problems in my life and, as I think it was Jason
recently, wonder about having the ability to sail,
etc. if something more were to happen. But apart from
that, I wonder about the ability for most of us to
return to land if we sell everything and go to sea at
a more mature age; even moderately mature. Would sale
of the boat, presuming it wasn't lost with all the
rest of our possessions (without insurance), be enough
to provide us a roof over our heads, food on the
table, and medications we will likely need at more
advanced ages if all we have left is social security
or that and a small pension or small 401k? After about
age 50 I think it becomes more difficult to make that
choice.
Mike, now I'm really getting curious. What do you, and
the rest of the list, think about this? Any validity?
If not, why not? If so and you have made the choice
anyway, how did you make the choice to go? Did you go
on a 30 (LOD) footer (more towards the Pardey style)
or a 40 or 50 footer (more towards the Dashew style)
or a 35 footer (up scale Pardey & down scale Dashew
styles)? For how long? What will you do when you
return or if "something" happens to curtail your
adventure? BTW, my wife just asked me to ask: Anybody
out there selling out in the U.S. and moving to
another country where they can have a home on land and
a boat? If so, where?
Maybe there is still hope for me yet and sounds like
my wife just might suddenly be more willing than I
thought! (Maybe it was the CBS sunday Morning show she
saw this morning!) Tell me how I can convince myself,
not to mention my family, that I'm not throwing away
my, and their, retirement for something that could
destroy the rest of my, and their, life! I'm looking
for a way we can all live with.
--- mgd9121961 <> wrote:
>
>
> Well John many of the questions you ask we are still
> asking ourself.
>
> When we relocate we are going to go to work at least
> for a while
> during which we will try to save enough to cruise
> for an extended
> time but will likely return to work if we fail to
> find ways to
> support our cruise along the way.
>
> The copper bottom is still in the testing phase for
> me. From all Ive
> seen so far it has no effect on surounding wood but
> it eats zincs
> like a teenager goes through breakfast cereal. In
> the end we may
> find that it isnt worth not having to haul and paint
> and may strip it
> off.........time will tell.
>
> As for keeping it simple. My idea is to use stand
> alone electronics
> that if one fails you dont lose everything and be
> sure to have the
> skills to get to port no matter what fails. That is
> one wonderful
> thing about wind vane steering, No power, no
> problem,
>
> we currently have a good chart plotter but the paper
> is always at the
> helm right along side it. we will have SSB as a
> matter of safety as
> much as anything else and we will have radar.
>
> I just dont want to rely on this stuff to much and
> find myself lost
> without it.
>
> Mike D.
>
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