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Originally Posted by thomm225
Yeah, it's just that I've seen quite a few while living in Florida not last in the cruising life too long.
I remember seeing folks anchored in small boats just hanging out for weeks on end or motoring the ICW. I'm thinking both get old after a while
As long as you have a destination (or multiple destinations) and continue to move toward it or them, that might work, but to just hang out not doing a lot won't work for many of us
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That’s
Florida, great place to try
boating yachtie life, easy to get into, very forgiving and available available available...easy to get aquatinted to others harder to make genuine friends.
Florida also great place for soon to be put ashore/in denial sailors needing to go ashore, Florida full of these old
salt types, I invest a lot listening to their stories, lots of wisdom to be learned! Seen more than dozen die off in my brief 4yrs in Florida, sad watching their greedy
family sell off their possessions when claiming the old salts effects after sheriffs notify the family.
I’m kinda a snob now about newcomers to yachtie life, quite skeptical of those who don’t show up in a boat but buy a boat and blah blah blah about their dreams and or haven’t left the port they acquire said boat, seems everyone here where I’m at acquired their boat here or had it brought here by truck-trailer???
Seemingly another marina of liveaboards/people whom live on boats yet boat doesn’t leave slip
mooring or especially anacorage ???
Im different I guess as I sailed into channel, powered thru channels challenging enterance to marina and hauled out. Been
living aboard while refitting on hard which people can’t understand here much less my Harley, road trips away while boat is on hard so I was shunned as a broke loser by gossiping fools? In no hurry I’m retired but they figure either I can’t afford it so I’ll lose my boat or so their gossip goes??? Says a lot about marina liveaboards here IMO...
Been offered a slip but town isn’t nice place, 40min to anywhere nice actually....then there is channels
depth dictates I can only ideally
Safety leave or come twice a month during peak tides of 4 day windows per month...office people understand it after I explained it as primary reason I turned down slip but
liveaboard crowd here doesn’t cuz they’re essentially squatters whom aren’t cruisers, haven’t been anywhere, never take their boats out, they’re just
budget sized floating house people, some don’t have masts????
IMO...their biz, it’s their life, their choice and their responsibility and liability...not my kinda people or marina as I explained to office people, after I explain that to management plus it’s a racked powerboaters marina duh,
shallow draft enterance channel...
Then I went on to explain I like my boat around cruising yachtie people who’ve been somewhere in their boat, have something to share, nautical culture experiences other than their day job in town today...I get that at my dive bar I frequent in town, I’m not gonna do that in marina/yard my boats at as it’s not my reality a day job in town, I’m quick to remind marina people here I’m retired, don’t live here cuz it’s
cheap, live here cuz my boats here and my boat is in
refit mode as marina yard sells me this
service..not cheapest opportunity in this middle of nowhere area with a boat I bought from marina my boats parked at.
Amazes still how much time people waste gossiping about others especially due to envy and or alliance building attempts..(identify or create a common enemy game)
Why I try to stay outta anchorage,
cheap marinas and
mooring fields off season as I’m firm believer in saying “you get what you pay for” especially in yachtie world...
Thanks for reading yet another novel by Capt JJ