Hi,
Following on from my previous post we have booked tickets and will be coming over to
Florida from Jan 12th till Feb 2nd to look at some
boats and hopefully meet some people, I have spoken to a
broker who came recommended via this forum and he will be sorting some
boats for us to look at.
What I would really like is to buy everyone a drink and pick your brains, we have decided this is what we want to do, and we want to do it now before more bits of me start falling off...
We are planning on getting a
boat, then spending the winters in the
Caribbean and it would be great to talk face to face with others who have/are doing something similar, heck even if your great Aunt's friend once knew a chap who saw a
boat it will do....
Always found there is no substitute for experience, I've read everything I can find on the subject and all that does is create more questions... My Kindle, she does overflow....
So if anyone is around and free and could put up with some bloke and his wife, with the
funny accents from our side of the pond, asking some stupid questions for several hours, getting bored to tears but drinking free booze then please get in touch...
Worst ways you will have a good laugh and be able to tell your friends about the mad couple you met who have never actually set foot on a
sail boat and now want to spend half their lives on one because they think it's going to be relaxing, and how you put them right about the best two days of boat
ownership, "the day you buy it and the day you sell it" that a boats never finished, and you wish you could have a day off sometimes....
We are there for three weeks and don't mind travelling, even if you do have cars with the
steering wheels on the wrong side, see there is another stupid question.... Do they have LHD and RHD boats...???