Our story??
To pick an option from Jim's original post, we are no 1). Possibly followed by 2 and then 3
We are still fairly young and I have wanted to go cruising for about 6 years. I figure there is a good chance it is not a phase im about to grow out of anytime soon. My wife needs no convincing, she is as good a sailor as I, around the cans probably better.
We can't wait for retirement, so the plan is a 1-2 year 'sabbatical' in about 1-2 years time. For this to work it means that we will have to do it Pardey style. 'Go small, go now'. We will however most probably have refrigeration and a diesel
After that who knows?? Probably a retirement cruise would follow later on, it seems like a long way off for us at the moment, but we can't think of anything else we would want to spend our retirement doing....
What are we doing at the moment?? Working like crazy to build the kitty, sailing on weekends and longer when we can on our current boat. We are also researching and looking for the boat to take us on our first 'serious' cruising adventure. That is where the economics are messing us around.....trying to figure out how much to spend at this stage of our lives, in 'the global economic downturn' is hard.