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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/22/2005 8:16:52 AM | | hmmmm..41 ft or bigger is a good trans-oceanic sailboat,anything smaller and you have the problem with being cramped ..rule number one of sailing and the sea in-genreal,if you dont respect it or if you over-look its power-it will kill you.. | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/22/2005 9:08:21 AM | | I wonder how many people that say they would like to do this actually would. This post has been good for me. My daughter has been challenging me to move to Romania or Greece and teach English for a year in two years. I think I'm going to plan that. What can it hurt. She and I can go and she can either homeschool for a year or attend school there. Guess we should get a head start on the language barrier...How many people do you think think all the time about doing something like this ( dream about it), but never make their dreams come true? | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/22/2005 9:13:01 AM | Actually, I find 38' to be the about perfect size. I have 2 French friends who sailed trans-atlantic in a 28' wooden sloop. Not a problem as they are both accomplished sailors. Biggest problem there is where to stash the needed food.
When they left the states (visa ran out) for St. Martin (In january no less), they hit 50KT winds head on for 3 days. The biggest problem was the wife's sea-sickness (and she never gets seasick). When they got to St. Martin, low and behold, she found she was pregnant Guess the Christmas party did the trick | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/22/2005 9:19:12 AM |
I'm sure that you'll have no trouble finding a woman who would be willing to do that
Au Contraire. I find it to be most difficult. If it wern't for living on a boat, I might even have a g/f. But I'd not trade living on the water for a g/f. | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/24/2005 3:03:03 PM | I agree It's difficult to find a woman that actually wants to do something in their life and would risk things. They are out there but few and far between, add in a few other stipulations, wants and desires and it's near impossible. Chin up, keep living life and looking.
Most everybody is pretty entrenched in the mundane, work 2000 hours, take a one week trip once a year, and dream and wish about things they will never make happen because they might not do it correctly. For a dream to become reality one must take the first step, even if it might later be found to be in the wrong direction and then follow it with another more educated step and eventually get someplace. The destination might not be where you first intended but at least it's someplace.
My next steps are going to be in the direction of Oregon, only state other than Hawaii that I haven't been too. Then back to the boat. | |
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nergal
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Joined: 5/12/2005
Msg: 58 | |
| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 8/26/2005 8:22:47 AM | | Sounds like a good idea to me. I may be moving my job to within a few miles of the coast and I have considered getting a houseboat or something like that. My only worry is getting waterwings for the cat. | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 8/26/2005 8:36:16 AM | if i had the funds to.. I would seriously drop out of "normal" life for a year or two..
actually have considered moving to the UK and living in the country side for a year with my daughter.. it would be a tremendous opportunity.
i'm not a sea/water person but would love to just leave all behind and live a little differently for a while | |
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nergal
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Joined: 5/12/2005
Msg: 60 | |
| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 8/26/2005 8:38:23 AM | | I already live in a tiny village .. less than 300 people I have dropped out so its only a matter of time before I take to the sea and become a Pirate because thats what I've always wanted to be lol | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 8/26/2005 8:50:50 AM | I would in a heartbeat!
I once moved into my 36' RV for a year. During the school part of that year, my husband's son came to live with us. In all we had 2 dogs and a cat living there too. It was great. The only other people we associated with were also full time RV'ers. Most of us did it because of work - my husband's job had us moving around for a while.
RV living was great. 36' was just right. So I know a boat would be great too. Have cruised and liked that. A different port every night. Ride 'um Cowgirl!!! | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 11/4/2005 10:46:51 AM | | I almost bought a 38 footer on ebay last week, I was high bidder 14 out of the last 20 seconds of the auction. It was Chris Craft, top of the line, needed a little work, the front deck was opened up like a sardine can but that would be an easy fix. It was a beautiful boat and would have served my purpose nicely. It was in Seatle, I would have probably have taken it through the canal to the gulf. Already have electroninc charts for that trip. | |
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| Lots of people do it...
Posted: 11/22/2005 9:02:17 AM | ...and you don't especially need a large boat. Also, from the first-hand accounts I've read, kids love it, and do indeed make friends at every port of call. Plus, what better education could a child have than to experience not just one society and culture, but many, the world over? Not to mention the sense of self-reliance it would teach them to voyage on a small craft crossing oceans to distant ports.
I liveaboard (single, w/dogs, no children), and plan to leave in 4-5 years. That's a long ways away yet, bt time flies when you are having fun, and that I am. 
Boat people are, almost without exception, the nicest, most helpful people you'll ever meet. Maybe its something about being on the water. I've met people from multimillionares (quite possibly billionaires, to be honest) to some who got by on US$6-7K per year, and though their equipment was different, their attitudes were very similar.
It's a different perspective down at the waterline.
This link will take you to the story of dave and Jaja Martin who, now with a family of five, started their cruising on a 24' boat. They later moved up to a 32'er (IIRC):
http://www.setsail.com/s_logs/martin/martin.html | |
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| Lots of people do it...
Posted: 11/22/2005 5:52:49 PM | Gotta watch those CC, JK. Many were built for lakes, using brass fasteners which aren't bothered by fresh water. But as soon as you get them on the ocean ................ Make sure they've been refastened with bronze - or be prepared for a big expense.
Now it's my turn. Notice on the slip for the middle of December, then off to Ensenada and points South - at least until the going South starts to get too cold! Wish us luck! | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 11/22/2005 6:14:55 PM |
i'd do it. i think it would an amazing experience that i would love to share with my hypothetical kids.. how great it would be to not only teach them about the world around them, but to actually get to show them different cultures and marine life. i couldnt see why anyone would want to pass up an opportunity like that :) | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 11/23/2005 5:36:16 AM | I've been on the road, I bought a 38 foot 1968 Hughes on ebay in Mobile, Al. That's one that will make it around the world. I'm in eastern Connecticut right now for Thanksgiving with my brother. I looked at the boat, it's a great deal, a little cosmetic damage on the side that can be fixed in a day or so. I just bought my self rich yesterday, I bought a bunch of stuff I needed for the boat, got about $2000 worth of stuff for $400. 80 watt flexible solar panel, emergency Katadyn 35 watermaker, stainless seaplane anchor, and a bunch of little stuff, books, lobsterman hats etc. It was at a marine consignment shop in Mystic, Boat Stuff, (Tell Paula Hi for me, great place,).
I had bought about the same amount of stuff there two years ago when I bought my other boat. She even had a SS flue from the wood stove I bought last time that she had been keeping and gave me. She was on my email list when I took the last trip. When I called her up at home (she was closed due to a car accident) she said "Oh, your the guy that bought the sailboat from the boy scouts in Ohio and sailed all year, you should publish those stories, sure I'll come down and open up."
I bought the replacement stanchions the other day at a local marina, and a Bruce type anchor in Sarosota, Fl. on ebay, should buy a plow type tonight at the same place. Anchors are like tools I always have to many, some say you can't, I sort of beleive that. I'll carry those the 15 miles from the outlet near the airport back to the boat on my bicycle gas trailer. I still need to get 200 feet of chain for the Bahamas, I'm told the coral cuts an anchor rope faster than a sharp knife cuts warm butter. I also want to find an oil stove and oven, to replace the propane one. The boat has a brand new Volvo 30 hp diesel. It was advertised with only two sails but it has 5, roller furled genoa headsail, original genoa, cutter stay sail and a spinnaker. I've wanted to try a spinnaker for a long time. I'll need a spinnaker tamer device and maybe try flying it off the front stay instead of a pole if I'm by myself. They make and sell a device for that on ebay, I can make one real easy to try it, and make the tamer too. The boat was completely outfitted, a turnkey opperation, even had a half bottle of whiskey in the fridge. Plates, silverware, nav equipment, charts, life jackets, two anchors, a danforth and fortress, a full rope locker, extra blocks and hardware etc. None of that was mentioned in the ebay ad, and the extras mesh and compliment real nicely with the extras I have on the old boat. | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 11/23/2005 6:11:40 AM | I also want to get some storm sails, a trysail and storm jib, might buy a used headsail from a huge boat to get the the 9-10 oz fabric and make them. The storm jib would be almost already made using the top and I think the trysail could come out of the lower tack corner.
I've been thinking of a name for the boat since it's made of fiberglass and can be cutter rigged, I was thinking something in the "glass cutter" form but would like something a little twisted like "SiO2 Cut'r." SiO2 is the chemical formula for glass, but it's really the formula for sand too and I'm not too fond of "sand cutter," LOL. Maybe I need the formula for borosilicate glass. What do you think, I welcome suggestions and want some critique here.
I like the chemical formula idea to have something a little educated and unique. The glass cutter would also fit a hobby, stained glass, I will replace the glass panels in the companionway doors on the boat with stained glass pieces probably with a nautical theme. | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 11/23/2005 8:03:01 AM | I just found the true formula for what the boat is made of, E-glass, that's what standard fiberglass is, it's Alumino Borosilicate glass, AlO3-B203-SiO2, nope not going to go that way, LOL. Back under the thinking cap.
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 1/22/2006 12:40:46 AM | On the high seas at last. Left the dock mid-December and made it all the way to San Diego in a month! Waiting for a Pactor modem cable before the next leg to Ensenada. Now I figured out a cell phone account that gives me free calls anywher in the US, Canada and Mexico from all of those countries. Then figured out how to use my cell phone as a modem so I'm back online again.
Hmm - the boat name....... ABSO would be a contraction of the formula...... ABSOcutta, ABSOcute. 'Course, you've also got to think about explaining/spelling the name to anyone who needs it. | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/16/2007 6:38:14 PM | A lot of water has gone under the keel or should I say keels since I last posted here. I've now got a 45 foot steel center co-ckpit ketch, and a 38 hughes sloop. I'm getting ready to head around the world. I haven't found the wife and kids yet but still hopeful. I'm pretty sure I won't come back without them.
My boats are in Florida right now, I'm in Kansas, I'll come out around Key West and head to the Carribean then I'll be up the east coast, New England and Nova Scotia area with my boat. I'm planing a circumnavigation that will take 5 years. I am looking for a 1st mate for this round the world cruise, applications are now being accepted. I also have a couple boats I need to liquidate before I leave to help fund the trip. If your interested in any of this from the old stories to the new boat you can check out my website jheld.mysite.com
Good luck and may your winds be fair.
Jon | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 7/16/2007 7:49:16 PM | this 'average' person is quite adventurous.. y i walked earlier this afternoon alll the way to the rec center from my place (seemed like forever & complained to my son it felt like it..  .. but was only 20-30 min walk)..
my idea of travelling around the world is in an RV.. .. | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 8/9/2007 2:45:22 PM | Is a sailboat not a water RV, I sure would think so....
I'm back in Florida, spent the better part of a month in Kansas and also was in Arkansas helping my brother build a concrete uinderground house, a couple more pours and then a big one, the 2nd floor roof and it will be ready for the real work to start, the interior.
I've got one of the old boats ready to sell, got a person coming down from Canada to look at it soon. The 2nd still need some work but coming along nicely, it should sell pretty quickly once it's ready to go.
It's hot down here, work mornings and evenings and siesta in the early afternoon.
I took my test and passed for the amateur radio general class, I'm sure I'm one of the only people in the world to have that license for over a month, own an HF radio and not been on the air. There will be plenty of time for that later. I found out that I can send and recieve email with the radio, probably not any pictures but text should be fine. While I was there I also took the Extra class test, I didn't study for it but it was free to take, I missed passing it by 4 questions out of 60, no big deal, don't need that.
Have a great day. | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 8/9/2007 5:21:25 PM | Don't feel bad, a lot of hams have a license and have never used it. Okay, maybe they weren't so motivated as to even buy a radio!
Good luck and enjoy your journey. I know that a maritime net meets on 14.300 MHz in the 20 meter band which your General class license covers. Myself, I just bought a low power (QRP) radio last week and am patiently waiting for 10 meters (28 MHz) to open up again. We're going to need a few more sunpots first.  | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 8/9/2007 5:53:22 PM | I used to have a Kawi 400, it's the one I rode year round and rode 50 miles at 17 below one Kansas Winter. I will always tell about riding 10 miles to campus on ice, parking the bike, getting off and immediately falling on my butt, I could ride but not walk on the stuff. And then one 12 inch snow day having a flat tire on the bike, being picked up by a co worker who didn't even know it was me till 5 minutes later when I managed to pull off enough layers to be recognizable.
I've been big into 2m and packet for a long time. The radio came with my last boat, it was in Florida and I was in Kansas, now that I'm back in Florida I'll probably spend some time checking out the radio, but first I've got to sell two old boats. The sunspots are on the way up, a couple more years and they'll be back. Maybe we'll talk sometime. Later | |
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| Chuck it all, Sailboat around the world With Kids
Posted: 8/9/2007 10:44:48 PM | | My best friend's family did that when he was in grade 9. They ran into some tough water here and there. A couple typhoons. It was nice but not quite the picnic they were expecting. | |
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