If you returned to land - why?

[cbtucker]

Yep, it's been a little while since I posted one of my questions. So I felt it was time to see what kind of discussion I could get going.

I like reading various blogs on sailing and have compiled a list (it's 84 now) of people in various stages of sailing (Favorite Links (http://from-land-to-liveaboard.blogspot.com/p/favorite-links.html)). The question I have is, If you returned to living on land, why? Was it for health reasons? Homesickness? Financial? Just didn't like living on a boat?

Now I realize that on a Sailing forum maybe there won't be that many people that have returned to land and are on here. But I thought I'd take a shot.

[Baggy]

The question I have is, If you returned to living on land, why? Was it for health reasons?

Nope

Homesickness?

Nope

Financial?

well kind of...

Just didn't like living on a boat?

I loved it...

[Richard10002]

Partly health, mainly financial. If I had the money to stop work again, buy something simple, and live on it in the sun, I could, and would.

Currently looking to buy a really cheap narrow boat, (£15k or so).

[JustinC]

We will return to land because the time will have run out (at least for the moment), and my wife will have to go back to work.

Doesn´t mean we won´t do it again though, next time hopefully going further and for longer....

[jimbaerselman]

Deteriorating agility means that younger, more agile crew are needed. And how many of those can tolerate an old codger like me bossing them around for more than a week or so . . .

Also, I'm no longer a contortionist, so I now delegate maintenance to others by chartering or crewing for friends. My contribution? Pouring the G&T, cooking, navigating in rough weather, piloting into out of the way gunk-holes. As long as I don't have to go up on deck in the wet and change a headsail any more.

A book title put it well; "To Sea in Carpet Slippers".