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From: Dwight Yachuk (no email)
Date: Wed Dec 01 2004 - 08:55:39 EST
Great plan.
Plan on crossing the atlantic in June. We did it this summer, Bermuca to the Azores is your longest stretch. You keep in touch with Herb on SSB during the crossing. http://www3.sympatico.ca/hehilgen/vax498.htm
As for the rest? Well you can get great deals in Florida. I'm assuming you know enough about boats and about what you want to make the right choice. I'd suggest looking for a boat that was a cruiser or that an owner had spent $$'s recently upgrading. Often these boats can be bought at slightly above the average price and are pretty well ready to sail/cruise. They will save you $1,000's in costs compared to a very cheap fixer upper which usually ends up costing more than the ready to sail.
You may want to buy that condo now and rent it out while you are away. Like they say, the best time to buy real estate was 20 years ago.
dwight
-----Original Message-----
From: Baumgart, James [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 8:41 PM
To: ''
Subject: [world-cruising] Cruising Plan
Hey its winter (at least here in San Diego) and whats a better way to spend
a winter evening then planning future cruises?
My wife and I are already expereinced cruisers, we have accomplished a year
long voyage San Diego to the Bahamas. After the kids get out of college, we
are contemplating retirement and another, much grander cruise.
Here's the basic idea for a 5 year voyage. We'll be in our mid-50s. I'll
be retired from the County of San Diego with medical insurance and fixed
income.
Sell everything, keeping enough $ to buy a condo for cash when we return.
Drive to Florida
Buy boat for cash
repair and outfit
trial cruise throughout the Bahamas
return to Florida, fix broken things, upgrade boat as necessary.
take off for Caribbean "Thornless Passage"
Bahamas
Turks and Caicos
Haiti / DR
Puerto Rico
Leeward / Windward isles
Atlantic crossing
spend 1 year cruising Great Britian (England, Scotland, Ireland)
Canals Baltic to Med
spend 1 year cruising Med (France, Italy, Spain, Greece)
Intend to make a base somewhere and rent or buy a car to explore Europe.
Intend to fly home to US once in a while.
Intend to have our children on board as guests once in a while.
Sail back to US
Sell boat, buy condo on golf course.
I know how to get from Florida to Grenada. What time of year do you cross
the Atlantic east about? How would you plan the European legs of the trip?
I'm thinking boat about 38 feet, cutter with self tacking staysail,
pilothouse or full enclosure, aft cabin with full size bed - I will not
spend another year sleeping in a V Berth. Diesel heat. Modified fin keel
(fast sailer with good upwind capabilities). Wind vane. Simple, simple.
Ideas? Comments?
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