trouville
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Reged: 10/06/2004
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Loc: crusing with an Arpège
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You can live aboard on a small budget we have several challenged liveaboards who.With £300 PM can live well providing you dont buy ANY thing for several months.to AF you can visit the canals!!only good for one season though
During summer you can anchor quite well today if your a social type. There are still a lot of free places for less than 8m & 1.10 draft or 2.20 beam
You need a kit for the economically challenged to use internet and a guide to eating
Once the summers over providing you havent visited cafès bought equipment you will have 2000 euros saved!!
Now you can relax a bit enjoy winter in a free or very inexpensive port free is mostly better as its near er towns and life with markets shops & other distractions
You will be able to work in town or on boats or internet?? IF not your £300 will keep you with enough to eat out well! or join evenings for those challenged to find a way to use there money or those economicaly challenged point
As your aboard & in the med (wouldn't recommend the Atlantic its a bit expensive over all 12M & chilly) you must be a bit "able" and will very soon find lots of income??(relativly) thats ive been told someting i havent learnt how not to burn your money in freezing fear misery before reterning to the med.
You realy dont need much to be very comfortable happy & content
Remember always to have about 2000 euros to hand for what ever
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Edited by trouville (17/05/2008 20:21)
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mike_bryon
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Reged: 07/01/2004
Posts: 189
Loc: venice
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We sought out a different solution and decided to go sailing without being superannuated. Four years ago with young children the prospect of retiring to sail, me at 45 my wife 36 was beyond our means so we reinvented ourselves and instead found ways to earn a living that would sustain the sailing lifestyle. We gave up the day jobs (my wife taught at a university I ran a couple of businesses) and we gave up the house, mortgage, car, running to stand still sensation etc and resolved to find a mobile way of earning a crust. Now I write and my wife teaches languages (she speaks five and when we arrive somewhere places adverts in the local paper etc). It has taken a few years to complete the transformation and it took some adjustment but now retiring for us would mean stopping what we want to do rather than starting it. so I hope I never retire.
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Jock89
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Reged: 02/12/2006
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Great subject again Cap'n.
suzy...I've been here all the time, waiting for you.! Where've you been.?
This is probably something that most of us have wondered about over the years, from time to time, I know I have,...i.e...all you ever wanted to know about other peoples incomes, but were too afraid to ask.!
In the early '70s I used to wander down to the Durban Yacht Mole & see who'd just arrived & go & have a chat. I used to say to my mate...we could be doing this you know.! We could have split everything 2 ways as well but he was never interested in yachts like I was & I couldn't afford a yacht on my own in those days, so had to abandon the idea, then in later years divorce-lost the house,etc...had to start all over again.
Well, I started making some much better money a few years ago, & and being single again...every Pound was a Prisoner. So here we are, & after a bit more essential equipment, my boat will be ready soon. It's been quite a sacrifice to get so far, (i.e..through working for other bloody people.!) and I've already spent about 150% of the purchase price & not finished yet.
It's taken me 30 yrs to actually make it happen, & apparently I'm now 65, (but going on 40) or so it says on this piece of paper-but there's obviously been a mistake.!
But boy!.. am I ready for this.!
If I'd made better money 30 yrs ago I'd have bought a boat then & my future would have just had to take care of itself.
That's just me though, I've never worried about what the future holds for me, I've never been on a 'career path' or owned a business. I fully expect to manage fine on the government pension, I don't have expensive tastes & I cook quite well now, & if there's an attractive 18-to-55 yr old female out there who'd like to join me, give me a call.!.
"All shall be well, & all manner of things shall be well.!"
Jock
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Searush
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Reged: 14/10/2006
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Loc: k up if caught.
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Retiring from work is easy. Retiring from the other ties; family, friends, lifestyle habits etc., is the hard part. You need to want change more than what you already have.
If one's current lifestyle suits, change is then a poor option. Nothing will ever run smooth all the time, but, by & large I am happy with what I have - semi-retired, sadly a long way from the sea, but happily close to my kids & grand children.
Oh, and good thread Captain, thanks for an excellent, thought provoking question.
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Abestea
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Reged: 04/06/2007
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Loc: Here, there and everywhere.
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Ok, just need to check my situation so i know what i need.
Boat......................................... Check.
Boat set up for long term............ Ongoing.
Hot female sailing girlfriend........ very missing (offers considered)
Financial independence.............. missing
No problem:P
I am going to try and make it happen as soon as possible.
I think the biggest problem people must have is knowing what to do to continue to work and earn money while sailing off into the sunset. I have not got a clue what i could do to earn money while on the move.
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CentaurPipedream
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Reged: 20/09/2006
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Loc: Essex
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Have set 55 as the latest to go. Financially should be possible. All I need now is a bigger boat and a woman 
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ironmaiden
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Reged: 19/08/2005
Posts: 104
Loc: northumberland
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well I'm hoping to re-write Annie Hills book on doing it "cheap". to the point that I'm going to make her look like a multi-millionair.... I'm building my own steel 32 footer, on which Nat and myself are going to just take off to where ever the fancy takes us... we dont need all the cr*p and trappings of todays society. you slog your guts out by working 3/4 of every day. then spend 90% of what you earn by giving it to income tax, council tax, road tax, insurance and all the other drivel that you don't really need,....... ya carn't even watch all the cr*p that they keep repeating on tv unless you pay £100 and odd quid a year to do so....
The saying "get a life" springs to mind.......
we are, she's called "simunye" and we carn't wait to get her finished and launched.
I'm 51 and I feel that I've missed used abour 30 of those years .....but then hind sight is a wonderfull thing.
Rach.
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anteak
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Reged: 28/01/2004
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Loc: lowestoft
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Quote:
Most wake up and see the after effects in later life without makeup and wonder what they married
I presume you are something of a young Peter Pan for you to make that comment!
Watch it! You are initing a flaming from the gentler sex. Don't spoil a perfectly good thread.
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Tranona
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Reged: 10/11/2007
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Great Saturday night thread that captures the variety of the human condition. In some ways I envy the "sod the rest of them" attitude but it isn't for everybody.
Tomorrow my wife of 40 years and I will leap into our Morgan and visit our children / grandchildren for Danny's 4th birthday. Add that to all the boaty things and you would rightly think "what a lucky B*****D".
Just pray it doesn't rain as we don't do hoods!
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jordanbasset
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Reged: 31/12/2007
Posts: 123
Loc: Shropshire
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Suzy this surprises me,from your blog you are an intelligent, funny,attractive woman. Who would not want to get to know you better, and you love sailng wow ! If I was single I would be asking to meet you now x
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