Sell the Wife: Off Grid/Beautiful Nature in a 7-day Starter Charter?

[HNoelle]

A couple of additional thoughts, from a lady who has done plenty of camping, trail riding, backpacking and boating.

This sounds like a family vacation more than a couples vacation.

Do your kids to like sailing? Have they been on the type of sailboat you are considering chartering? Have you? Knowing that before a week long crewed or bareboat charter would be high on my priority list, personally. (I remember being the whiney, seasick 8 year old that really *didn't* want to get be cold and wet on a boat all day or all weekend). Maybe a half day or full day crewed charter closer to home would be a very wise investment. There are plenty of good sailing destinations in the Midwest - Northern Lake Michigan and The Apostle Islands in Lake Superior come to mind. And you can easily sail for a day and include a lot of land based activities in a vacation in either location.

Also, you mention your sailing experience, but not your general boating experience. If you already have solid general power boating knowledge (navigation, docking, knots, radio usage, using preferred gadgets for example), I would expect that learning to sail will be more of an expanion of an existing skill set, and you would likely be ready to go out solo more quickly than if you are brand new to boating. It's all a lifelong learning process of course.

If your wife and kids enjoy roughing it backpacking in the backcountry, even a simple sailboat will likely be luxurious. Enjoy your sailing adventures!

[Cadence]

Originally Posted by HNoelle

A couple of additional thoughts, from a lady who has done plenty of camping, trail riding, backpacking and boating.

This sounds like a family vacation more than a couples vacation.

Do your kids to like sailing? Have they been on the type of sailboat you are considering chartering? Have you? Knowing that before a week long crewed or bareboat charter would be high on my priority list, personally. (I remember being the whiney, seasick 8 year old that really *didn't* want to get be cold and wet on a boat all day or all weekend). Maybe a half day or full day crewed charter closer to home would be a very wise investment. There are plenty of good sailing destinations in the Midwest - Northern Lake Michigan and The Apostle Islands in Lake Superior come to mind. And you can easily sail for a day and include a lot of land based activities in a vacation in either location.

Also, you mention your sailing experience, but not your general boating experience. If you already have solid general power boating knowledge (navigation, docking, knots, radio usage, using preferred gadgets for example), I would expect that learning to sail will be more of an expanion of an existing skill set, and you would likely be ready to go out solo more quickly than if you are brand new to boating. It's all a lifelong learning process of course.

If your wife and kids enjoy roughing it backpacking in the backcountry, even a simple sailboat will likely be luxurious. Enjoy your sailing adventures!

I was 4 with the sea sickness, never had it again. And you are absolutely right about the sailing is a short learning curve if you have power boat experience. I'm sure that will bring neg. comments.

[iSaint]

Just read the title. F*** yeah sell the wife. You'll find some good looking gold digger along the way. Sail away my friend!