Morgana
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Reged: 28/08/2003
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Loc: East Coast
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thats what? £76 a week?...... doesn't sound very feasible to me.... I gues you could survive, but while i'm not looking to live a life of luxury and excess, it does sound a bit on the light side.....
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LadyJessie
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Reged: 21/11/2006
Posts: 998
Loc: the Med
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I did decide in my early thirties that I needed to go sailing and leave the professional office life as soon as possible. It was just a means to an end. I set my goal at 55 years and started to set up pension plans accordingly. Then my father who had run his own business until he retired at 74 years of age, died just one year later. It reinforced in me the idea that early retirement is a good idea. I managed (thanks more to good market developments than any skill on my part) to secure enough funds to retire at the age of 48. In hindsight, the best decision I have ever made. Everybody who has retired early will tell you that their only regret is that they did not do it earlier. I know several 'early stoppers' here in the Med and we have the our shared slogan: "retirement is wasted on the old". So true.
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Captainslarty
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Reged: 12/08/2007
Posts: 2012
Loc: Currently La Coruna Spain
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ! suzy..
such a sweet thing... you WILL find it.. but you need to be out there..
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Captainslarty
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Reged: 12/08/2007
Posts: 2012
Loc: Currently La Coruna Spain
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Jessy, I BOW. ! seriously..
For an accountant, you are the sodium chloride of the earth,,, would love to offer ya a beer... 
any time dude, me fridge is always cool
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Tranona
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Reged: 10/11/2007
Posts: 1084
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I've spent a big chunk of my life travelling and still enjoy the journey as well as the arrival. Perhaps not suited to giving it all up and changing lifestyle completely. Therefore aim to maximise enjoyment on a number of fronts. Really enjoyed the Ferrari museum and spending two days in Bugatti land, but best of all standing on the pitstraight of the old Reims circuit early on a Sunday morning and reliving some of the images of my childhood memory. Not sure it beats going through the Alderney Race with the tide under you or finding the entrance to Lakka harbour on Paxos after a brisk sail from Mourtos but for me variety is all.
So much to see and do!
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Captainslarty
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Reged: 12/08/2007
Posts: 2012
Loc: Currently La Coruna Spain
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Indeed.. whatever rocks yer boat..
and.. it dont NEED to be a boat.. its a way out, a path to slef imposed freedom from control and a life that mostly you dictate..
go for it.. enjoy
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LadyJessie
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Reged: 21/11/2006
Posts: 998
Loc: the Med
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Slarty; would love to have a beer with you. When are you finally going to get into the eastern Med?
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havent_a_clue
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Reged: 20/02/2007
Posts: 565
Loc: West Sussex
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(Sigh!) It's not going to happen for me. I think the best I can hope for is to spend as much time as possible day & weekend sailing with maybe a trip to the Med. It's the wife - she's not sailed before and needs 'room' - and I doubt she'll change, I mean, occaisionally (spelling) she throws a wobbly and says 'lets just emigrate or get out of here, I can't stand it' but the next day she says 'it's a lovely house, we're so lucky'. So I don't think she'd go for anything less than a 40 footer with ALL the trimmings, whereas myself, I think I'm a closet agorophobic and like nothing better than something small and well designed and thought out, where I can just shut out the world. And yet, I love wide open spaces - when we toured the Western USA, she got very bored with me saying 'wow look at that, isn't it fantastic' etc whenever we topped a rise and another 70mile wide flat desert valley with cactii and a ruler-straight road disappearing into the heat haze. As for pension, finance etc, well, we'll probably end up with the state pension and a couple of SMALL private ones. We don't have kids (just didn't happen for us), but we will have our house and hopefully whatever sailing boat we own paid for, so I guess we won't be too badly off come age 60. She wants a small property on the south coast which can be rented out during the winter months and a small place on either the French Atlantic coast or the French Med. I could live with this IF she'll agree to sail between the two. But I guess I'll always long to slip lines and sail off into the wild blue yonder, so unless she decides she just LOVES sailing and living aboard a 30 foooter, I suppose it'll be back and forth between France and the UK. I couldn't do it without her, 'cos I love her so much, so I'll settle for what I can get, soory about the spelling, cant see the keybord.
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curve
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Reged: 09/02/2008
Posts: 875
Loc: North by Northwest
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But that is a great compromise. You do get to sail a lot more and you do get to stay with your soul mate.
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Captainslarty
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Reged: 12/08/2007
Posts: 2012
Loc: Currently La Coruna Spain
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Absolutely agreed, and in THAT you are lucky..
Most wake up and see the after effects in later life without makeup and wonder what they married.. I envy you,, as I am sure do many others.
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