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What’s on Your Bucket List? must be sailing related thingies

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#1 ·
My Bucket List Before I go to HELL :D

Only two items left on the list.

1. Sail to Bermuda, UK, North side of Med Sea, turn around in Turkey and back to Caribbean to Panama, Pacific, NZ, sail north to Philippine to Hong Kong and Canton, China, down to Vietnam, Singapore and make my way to south to Madagascar and then round out SA back to South America to Caribbean. Final trip to Florida.

2. Ride my Triumph from Ocean City, MD via Highway 50 to SFO. Travel like a hobo, stick with camping, eating at diner, and staying at roadside motels of the yesteryear. Travel light, and use WalMart as my traveling wardrobe.

This is purely photography focused trip to see America. But most like will leave my DSLR home and find a more compact camera like X100.

Itinerary and route of both trips is subject to change. No need to break any records. I can take a break any time I want, and I can fly home if I have enough. No need to follow any one's wishes. I will do whatever I want and for the first time, I am no longer as a provider. I am free at last. :)

Will I do it again to support my parents, brothers and sisters, our own family, our children and employees? Absolutely!!!

So what is your short list. :p
 
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#4 ·
My Bucket List Before I go to HELL :D

Only two items left on the list.

2. Ride my Triumph from Ocean City, MD via Highway 50 to SFO. Travel like a hobo, stick with camping, eating at diner, and staying at roadside motels of the yesteryear. Travel light, and use WalMart as my traveling wardrobe.

This is purely photography focused trip to see America. But most like will leave my DSLR home and find a more compact camera like X100.

. :p
So how is this sailing related by your own title? Good item though?
 
#6 ·
For some reason I really have the desire to cross the line and look for the Southern Cross.
Maybe an Atlantic crossing, but I really don't want to have much of anything to do with the Southern Ocean. To those that say they want to circumnavigate I say Good Luck down there. I think I can keep myself busy in the Carib.
and how could I forget, there is so much to see right here in the midwest; some time on Superior would be nice and of course the North Channel and that big ass bay over by there.
 
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#10 ·
1. Sail the Annapolis-Newport race
2. Sail to Bermuda.
3. Sail Newport, RI to Maine. Been underway down East Coast, Caribbean, Gulf, transited Panama (3x), up Central America, West Coast to Everett WA. Need to fill in that little RI to Maine part (already sailed Penobscot Bay). Not necessarily all under sail, but who cares? ;)
 
#12 ·
Bucket List?

How does this bucket list thing work? Is it a compilation of all future cruises or races? Alternatively, is it a "dream list" or things that are in some sort of planning stage? How about things that are already on the schedule? For example, I'm already committed to doing the puddle jump in '14. Is that a "bucket" item? (insomuch as this time off is already in my company's vacation schedule)
 
#14 ·
Re: Bucket List?

How does this bucket list thing work? Is it a compilation of all future cruises or races? Alternatively, is it a "dream list" or things that are in some sort of planning stage? How about things that are already on the schedule? For example, I'm already committed to doing the puddle jump in '14. Is that a "bucket" item? (insomuch as this time off is already in my company's vacation schedule)
However you like, Captain! Just want to hear what you have accomplished on your list and what else in there need to be done. Hey, it you don't dream it, plan it, it won't be done. :)
 
#18 ·
Hmmmmm?? "Bucket list", huh?
Well... there is mebbe one or two items that I din't check off yet; but I dunno that they're 'sailing related'.
The big one *was* buy the boat.. then complete the task of learning to handle the monster! ;) Then ta see what's over the horizon. Yep! that's IT ! :D
 
#20 ·
Bring my snowmobile and sail northern Canada, Alaska & Norway/Sweden/Finland. So I can sail and ride, who said it has to be tropical to be a paradise?
No clue how I will accomplish this but I wanna do it anyhow.

I would also like to sail to England, although I will need more expirence and knowledge, much more.

Brad
s/v KIVALO
 
#32 ·
Bring my snowmobile and sail northern Canada, Alaska & Norway/Sweden/Finland. So I can sail and ride, who said it has to be tropical to be a paradise?
No clue how I will accomplish this but I wanna do it anyhow.

I would also like to sail to England, although I will need more expirence and knowledge, much more.

Brad
s/v KIVALO
A snowmobile suspended from dinghy davits, that would be a classic photo.

FYI 43.3 miles is the record for a snowmobile on water, so you should be safe. :)
 
#21 ·
Develop a great application or invention. Then retire early and cruise the Caribbean in the winter and the northeast in the summer. Get a slip whenever I want instead of anchoring out.

In the near tern, a trip to Nantucket. A trip to Bermuda, which doesn't have to be on our boat.

Regards,
Brad
 
#22 ·
Good thread. Not sure, but a couple of things come to mind. Would like to cruise in the arctic somewhere, perhaps Greenland or Baffin Island. Also we have sailed to all of the continents except Europe. The admiral has been making noises about that.

WRT Easter Island, it is a fascinating place to visit. Like all remote islands it is so much better to go there by boat. Make sure to bring the good ground tackle and it is great fun to go ashore between surf breaks on both sides - you are close enough to talk to the surfers on each side. There is an incredibly beautiful anchorage called Ankena on the north shore, about 100 m wide with a lovely beach at the top with resurrected statues (most of the statues are still lying down). Only problem with this anchorage is that it would be a death trap with anything from the north.
 
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WRT Easter Island, it is a fascinating place to visit. Like all remote islands it is so much better to go there by boat. Make sure to bring the good ground tackle and it is great fun to go ashore between surf breaks on both sides - you are close enough to talk to the surfers on each side. There is an incredibly beautiful anchorage called Ankena on the north shore, about 100 m wide with a lovely beach at the top with resurrected statues (most of the statues are still lying down). Only problem with this anchorage is that it would be a death trap with anything from the north.
I stole this paragraph and save that in my iPad for future reference. :)
 
#24 ·
1. Time

2. Spend winters in Caribbean, fly home for family/holiday events. Summers day-sailing in New England.

3. 2 to 3 yr cruise. RI to England/Ireland maybe jump Nova Scotia-Greenland-Iceland, down coast through France-Spain-Portugal, into Mediterranean as far as Greece, maybe Turkey, out to Azors/Canaries, cross to Grenada, island hop north to US and up East coast back to RI. Fly home for family/holiday events along the way.

4. Spend one day, just one day, with everything caught up on my boat to-do list.
 
#29 ·
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3. 2 to 3 yr cruise. RI to England/Ireland maybe jump Nova Scotia-Greenland-Iceland, down coast through France-Spain-Portugal, into Mediterranean as far as Greece, maybe Turkey, out to Azors/Canaries, cross to Grenada, island hop north to US and up East coast back to RI. Fly home for family/holiday events along the way.
This is very much I have in mind for sailing to UK/Europe. I may opt for sailing in the inland water by way of Bordeaux. Last year, I purchased two books talking about how to transit inland water and canals in Europe, doable and fascinating. Added bonus is that my wife is likely to join me.
 
#25 ·
1. Cross an ocean in my own boat.
2. Visit the Aleutian Island chain, must stop at Shemya and Kiska.
3. Visit Easter Island and Pitcairn.
4. Visit the Faulklands, Saint Helena and the Azores.
5. Would like to re-visit Massawa on the Red Sea but the pirate situation places this destination pretty low on the list.
 
#26 · (Edited)
Great question! I've always dreamed of doing things like circumnavigating the globe, but never really thought about putting together a list that I can work towards with a realistic possibility of attaining. So, trying to keep it within the realm of actually being able to check these items off my list, I came up with the following:

1. Bareboat charter in the Greek Islands
2. Sail to Bermuda (again), but this time on my boat. (I may have to upgrade from my P-35, although a prior owner did make the trip on my Calypso)
3. Sail the coast of Maine (and possibly make it up to Nova Scotia)
4. Bareboat charter in the South Pacific.

So assuming I can get through the next few years of paying college tuition for my two daughters, this is my "realistic" list.
 
#31 ·
I've done the Indian and the Pacific, not much chance of doing the Atlantic, it's on the opposite side of the world and I haven't enough time.

So my bucket is full of Pacific islands, going east from New Zealand (tough part) to Marquesas, then wander westwards through the assorted island groups to New Caladonia, miss out Australia and then on to South East Asia (Indonesia, PNG, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, etc). This will take as long as it takes but we're hoping for 10 years and we start in April 2016.

A fundamental rule in my bucket is we're going nowhere where the temperature drops below 25° C.
 
#35 ·
After a nasty overnight passage of Pt. Conception while going from San Francisco to San Diego 2 crewmen said they were "crossing out bluewater voyaging" from their bucket list.
So I'm more guilty of pouring cold water into the buckets of others.;)
 
#36 ·
retire- gov't,lawyers and insurance companies have made it near impossible for me to use the little brains god gave me and the skills my elders taught me. Never want to worry about getting pre approval to save some one's life again. Only approval I want is to clear customs from now on.
text and email no one who I haven't had face time with first and then only rarely.
do US east coast/carribean wth my bride. Shake down her (and the boat.) LOL
do the North Atlantic gyre
do the South Pacific gyre
Once done and while doing it use my boat as a traveling lab and infirmary for folks with Machado Joseph Disease (spino cerebellar atrophy type 3) Still no cure and little research as drug compaies don't see there being enough people with it to fund research - no "payback".. Do what I can on my dime with my time. High density in Azores, San Diego, south part of New England, north coast of Brazil and northern Japanese Islands. All good places to cruise to. There are also other areas where piracy and politics makes it problematic.
Done the races - no interest now.
New Boat comes in April. Starting to sell cars/motorcycles already, house goes next. Hope to say "bye- all soonest:D:D:D
 
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