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Old 28-11-2013, 16:16   #91
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Re: What are your Voyaging Hopes, Plans, Dreams or Vague Intentions for some day!

Would like to fix some more stuff and go see if it stays fixed. How long that takes is how far I get. I will go north though unlike most here. I still dream of Christmas at chatter box falls.
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Old 01-12-2013, 14:55   #92
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Next spring /summer I will gunk hole the coast of Maine( as I have for 25 years) and as fall approaches I will head South, bound for Culebra and all the places in between. My boat is ready and all I need to do is drop my mooring line and head out. I have no schedule or hard plans other than to keep the butter soft. I wish I had done this 20 years ago.
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Old 19-04-2015, 01:15   #93
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PLAN A:
Win Lotto; buy 35' trimaran, sail the world living off investments.

[Helps to buy a ticket now and again....] Doh!

PLANB:
Save for twenty years, build ditto boat, sail the world living off govt old age pension.
[Fed gov just extended receiving age to 70......] Doh!

PLAN C:
Build 20' Scarab trimaran and sail the world, living off rent from own home
[Can't afford to build a 20' tri for a few years yet ] Doh!

PLAN D:
Add 14' Paper Tiger cat hulls to alreday owned International 420 dinghy to make 'bitsa' trimaran and go sailing...somewhere....

[Work in progress, stay tuned.....]
LOL...still in 'wannabe' land, but have moved on to PLAN E:

Convert house into two flats. Rent one live in the other. Use rental income as 'boat bucks' to complete construction of recently acquired 24' trimaran.

Currently on a belt-tight budget reminiscent of Halle berry's waistline to complete the house conversion.

Intersting to note how one's plans change over time. Seriously, the 14' tri plan was never more than a pipe dream, although I did work it up as far as scaled concept drawings, but I now have a Paper Tiger catamaran for sale, so some boat bucks may be coming back to me as 'house bucks'.

Watch this space.....
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Old 19-04-2015, 05:32   #94
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All over PNW this year. Around Vancouver Island early next summer. California, Sea of Cortez, Pacific islands soon after.
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Old 19-04-2015, 07:04   #95
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i am actually enjoying myself out here.
i plan on continuing this until i am dead.

then i will become a ghost to haunt doj
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i am actually enjoying myself out here.
i plan on continuing this until i am dead.

then i will become a ghost to haunt doj
The dead dont scare me. Only the living :-p .
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At the moment..??
BLUDI GETTING THERE....
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ok doj so my dead brother n i can move in when my turn comes.
boaty...you WILL.....it just takes longer in yer own boat
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I just want to goof off mostly with sails between places of interest. Want to see the sights that most people only see in the magazines along the way and plan to chose routes as needed to accomplish this. Don't really plan to circumnavigate, but if that works out based on how long I can keep going I will.

I plan to not have a plan beyond the stop!

PS - I don't plan to have to be cold anymore!
Hey I think this was a great answer!
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regarding the file on post 32

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in 5 years or so,when our youngest son is at least 5 we'd like to take off for at least 12 months to the pacific,carribean or med,buy the boat wherever we plan to sail,in the mean time i've got to build a house,sell it,build another(hopefully the mortgage is gone or almost gone by this stage.learn to sail,do a few charters gain experience,maybe get a small boat and sail at weekends etc etc
here's my pacific places to visit!
i've just tried viewing these placemarks i put on here a while back,there were around 50 or so pins in various locations in the pacific but now when i download and view i only get a single placemark south of fiji? can anyone try viewing and see if it shows correctly on another computer? i seem to have misplaced the original

the file is on post 32 as it doesn't show in the quote
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i've just tried viewing these placemarks i put on here a while back,there were around 50 or so pins in various locations in the pacific but now when i download and view i only get a single placemark south of fiji? can anyone try viewing and see if it shows correctly on another computer? i seem to have misplaced the original

the file is on post 32 as it doesn't show in the quote
Tried it...it won't show. On a reliable laptop.
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Old 14-07-2017, 17:43   #102
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i've just tried viewing these placemarks i put on here a while back,there were around 50 or so pins in various locations in the pacific but now when i download and view i only get a single placemark south of fiji? can anyone try viewing and see if it shows correctly on another computer? i seem to have misplaced the original

the file is on post 32 as it doesn't show in the quote
Yeah I can't recover them either and I went through all the layers. Looks like as Google earth got updated those things faded away. Perhaps just look at your pins here and pull out a globe and they will jog your memory!
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Wifey B: As long as we're doing it together, it will always be perfect.

Right now we cruise about 220 days a year. We boat from home and short trips another 50 days. It's perfect for now and when it's not perfect for us, we'll change it. We have a philosophy "as long as it works for both of us." Life also includes our extended family on shore and time with them and our visits to the orphanage in NC, no priority above that. To always be there for all those so special in our lives.

We want to see the world by water. See some of it many times. We started a little less than 5 years ago and have done so much and yet so little compared to all there is. So far, we've covered about 80,000 nm on the water in our quest.

We've seen the following at least once so far. The west coast from Alaska to the Panama Canal. From the Canal to Boston. The Bahamas, the western Caribbean, the eastern Caribbean down to St. Lucia. Now the loop all the way around to the TN River, and saw it.

On our near term, the new places are Boston up and around and down the St. Lawrence to Montreal. Then there's Europe. I can easily see four seasons or more there. From the Med to the North Sea to the Norwegian Sea. Crossing the Atlantic is on the list.

Then sometime crossing the Pacific. Asia. The South Pacific. Then some day perhaps South America. Then everything we've seen again and then again.

We know the time will come we have to slow down and it may come we'll have to stop, but until then we'll just enjoy life.

And the most important goal, to never stop dreaming. Always have unfulfilled wants and plans and hopes. When the time comes life is over, not to die with it complete, but die with dreams still on our minds and love still in our hearts. One should never complete their lists, not even their bucket lists. The fun in life is enjoying today but also looking forward to tomorrow. I'm lucky that I get to do that with the man I love and who loves me and we're freaking awesome together.
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Yeah I can't recover them either and I went through all the layers. Looks like as Google earth got updated those things faded away. Perhaps just look at your pins here and pull out a globe and they will jog your memory!
thanks for trying.i've since found the original and its the same-odd!.I seem to recall using GE on an old linux computer to make that file, the computer is in storage at the moment,i'll try it on that when i get around to digging it out.
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Hi everyone,
In November this year I'll be off to sail around the world in my Sadler 26 from Cape Town via Panama... This has been my dream for years and I'm finally doing it!

I'll be posting videos of my preparations and journey to my youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKR...fS9tL3HL_HbNnQ

You will also find some of my older videos of sailing in South African waters there.
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