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buhrly · 18-04-2011, 14:45

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Originally Posted by IdoraKeeper

The OP mentions downsizing and downsizing....I envision heaps of household goods stacked on the dock and dumpsters bulging with refuse.

Todd

That pretty much sums it up

only it was at the house in Prineville. More trips to Goodwill type organizations then i can count. Months of posting items on craigslist. Van fulls of stuff to family. And then there was the always full garbage can with the pile next to it. Then about that time you realize there is still to much and start over. After all that we still ended up with stuff in storage.

courageous cat · 18-04-2011, 14:47

Congrats, Its all down wind from here

**Hudson Force** · 18-04-2011, 15:07

Just a thought,- if you move aboard early enough, as just out of college when everything you own still easily fits in your car; then, you never have to downsize!

shadow · 18-04-2011, 15:13

Welcome to the board and yes, we are jealous too as we hope to have that first night sooner rather than later!! Once again, congrats!!!!!!

artymac · 18-04-2011, 16:01

GDONYA! Looking forward to waking up afloat again. Our tunnel has a light at the end now. (just hope it's not the train!)

Feral Cat · 18-04-2011, 17:47

Congratulations!

Well done!

perchance · 18-04-2011, 18:01

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Originally Posted by Tripod

Congrats Buhrly.

I only gets better. Can't wait till we move back aboard. I sleep better in an anchorage full of weekenders on short scope than I do on land.

Without the wheel how would you get to the beer store?

buhrly · 19-04-2011, 14:15

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Originally Posted by CaptForce

Just a thought,- if you move aboard early enough, as just out of college when everything you own still easily fits in your car; then, you never have to downsize!

This is a great idea and would have saved lots of time. For any college age out there

w1651 · 19-04-2011, 15:34

Good Job Buhrly.

I hope to be there as soon as next year. Don't forget the sleep strips across the nose when you bunk down at night. I might be in the slip next to you.

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When I started driving in the EU on the opposite side of the road, I had concerns that I would forget the correct side when I got back to the UK I was told it wouldnt be a problem.

Scarily, I find myself having to constantly question which side I should now be driving on and sometimes find it a challenge to work it out in a split second

Anjoy just remember to drive on the wrong side of the road and you'll do fine....:-)

sinbad7 · 20-04-2011, 07:26

I remember well my time chartering in South Norway with my 60' alu. motor yacht.
We had a fixed mooring spot in a sheltered but narrow canal at the foot of a large peninsula with a fair tidal stream running through. While this was keeping the canal ice free in the winter months,it also meant that a multitude of large and thick ice floes came drifting through. I had a couple of very long and sound boat hooks to fend off the floes when neccessary and remember getting up in the middle of the night to push away offending floes bumping into my flat transom,making sleep impossible.
Standing there in my pyjamas and slippers,snow covering my ancles and fending off the ice flows in a -23 C temberature,I remember saying to myself. "Hey,what are you doing here? Lost your mind?"

Later,meeting my wife to be on the internet,I spent the following two winters in Brazil before moving here permanently. Still doing the odd trip out to the verandah checking the weather,but now in +32 C. Still,I miss my live aboard time a lot....

Jude2010 · 01-06-2011, 09:13

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Originally Posted by buhrly

This is a great idea and would have saved lots of time. For any college age out there

Glad to know we are doing at least something right!

Don1500 · 04-06-2011, 11:09

Sinbad,
I spent a lot of time at Ubatuba. Beautiful spot. Sit and watch the girls go by drinking a cold Bohemian. I was working in Jacarei and Sao Jose Dos Campos at the time.