Any early retirees turned cruisers with big careers have regrets?

[thomm225]

Originally Posted by surf_km55

Get a bigger boat and maybe you won't feel so "confined."


PS,
Your knack for rationalization is not only impressive, but pugnacious like the pit bull who grabbed me by the arm ~40 years ago. The owner advised me to punch him in the head as hard as I could to make him let me go. I refused at 1st, but after awhile with dog slobber all over my arm, I had no choice but to do as I was instructed.


It worked.

Sounds like you don't understand dogs very well. (whereas I understand and know them very well)

I don't plan to move to a larger boat until I sail the Chesapeake from bridge to bridge then Round the Outer Banks

That is unless I could find something like a Twister 28. This is the type boat I want.

https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/twister-28

Then I'd like to sail to Pensacola, FL where I used to race and I might even sail over to Horn Island and Ship Island off the Mississippi Coast about 15 miles which is where we used to race on beach cats a couple times per year.

Then I'll make a decision on whether or not I want to go cruising.

[thomm225]

Originally Posted by valhalla360

Nope, when the standard is between 62 and 67...by no common standard is 69 early.

Because some can't or won't retire earlier, doesn't make it early.

Okay, but I'm just going by those in my profession which is pretty easy on the bod while at the same time keeping the mind sharp.

We electrical/electronic/computer/cyber techs don't usually destroy our bodies doing our jobs. We are much more lucky than some that have a harder more physical job.

[Pelagic]

I've never retired, because I have never worked!
Everything I have done in my life was because I fell in love with that vocation.

University was never work, because I'm curious

Crewing on tugs and commercial ships was never work because I wanted to learn from the Pros.

Yacht and ship deliveries empowered me to command.

Designing and commanding super yachts was the pinnacle of my satisfaction at sea working for owners who became like family to me

Transitioning at 50 to living at a dive resort was not retirement but a chance to come down from the heady heights of a billionaires lifestyle to a normal pace with fringe benefits of a beautiful native girl and diving from my doorstep

Buying stargazer and enjoying her was not a dream, but and extension of my life and a need for horizon choices

Enthusiasm for life, maintaining that thirst for knowledge and keeping a high standard of detail in whatever you do or learn, is the antidote for any change in lifestyle fears.

Simply put, if you are doing something you love, it is not work and if you are good at it, the money will always follow until you dont need any more,

... Then you should change path and challenge yourself some more!

[theDangerz]

Originally Posted by thomm225

Okay, but I'm just going by those in my profession which is pretty easy on the bod while at the same time keeping the mind sharp.

Again... rationalization doesn't make things true.

Just because "you know someone who..." doesn't make it the standard or reality.
Not for retirement age and not for your jaded/negative view of cruising based on a couple others who left and returned or never left at all.

The only real question is, WHY you keep wasting our time with these details that have nothing to do with the thread topics:
- Early Retirement
- Reactions from people who have been out cruising

You've admitted to not (and possibly having no interest in) doing either... so why keep posting here??

[Jim Cate]

Originally Posted by Pelagic

I've never retired, because I have never worked!
Everything I have done in my life was because I fell in love with that vocation.

University was never work, because I'm curious

Crewing on tugs and commercial ships was never work because I wanted to learn from the Pros.

Yacht and ship deliveries empowered me to command.

Designing and commanding super yachts was the pinnacle of my satisfaction at sea working for owners who became like family to me

Transitioning at 50 to living at a dive resort was not retirement but a chance to come down from the heady heights of a billionaires lifestyle to a normal pace with fringe benefits of a beautiful native girl and diving from my doorstep

Buying stargazer and enjoying her was not a dream, but and extension of my life and a need for horizon choices

Enthusiasm for life, maintaining that thirst for knowledge and keeping a high standard of detail in whatever you do or learn, is the antidote for any change in lifestyle fears.

Simply put, if you are doing something you love, it is not work and if you are good at it, the money will always follow until you dont need any more,

... Then you should change path and challenge yourself some more!

What a great post, Pelagic, and IMO shows a life well lived. Good onya, mate!

Jim

[theDangerz]

Originally Posted by Pelagic

I've never retired, because I have never worked!
Everything I have done in my life was because I fell in love with that vocation.

University was never work, because I'm curious

Crewing on tugs and commercial ships was never work because I wanted to learn from the Pros.

Yacht and ship deliveries empowered me to command.

Designing and commanding super yachts was the pinnacle of my satisfaction at sea working for owners who became like family to me

Transitioning at 50 to living at a dive resort was not retirement but a chance to come down from the heady heights of a billionaires lifestyle to a normal pace with fringe benefits of a beautiful native girl and diving from my doorstep

Buying stargazer and enjoying her was not a dream, but and extension of my life and a need for horizon choices

Enthusiasm for life, maintaining that thirst for knowledge and keeping a high standard of detail in whatever you do or learn, is the antidote for any change in lifestyle fears.

Simply put, if you are doing something you love, it is not work and if you are good at it, the money will always follow until you dont need any more,

... Then you should change path and challenge yourself some more!

Good for you!!
I seem to keep learning a similar lesson... taking projects for free because I simply love doing them, and then watching them somehow also turn into money.

You however raised the bar significantly by also doing that focused on the water, boats and diving!

Well played indeed!!!

[surf_km55]

Originally Posted by thomm225

Sounds like you don't understand dogs very well. (whereas I understand and know them very well.

You know every dog on the planet? I've met people like you before... and walking away is the best recourse.

My humble apologies to the OP and other worthy participants for this waste of bandwidth, I'm out.

[carstenb]

Interesting - both my wife and I were senior executives and both of us loved our jobs - we enjoyed them so much that we would have done them for free (don't tell anyone).

We weren't stressed, even though we worked long hours. We walked away when I was in my early 60's and she was in her mid 50's. We could easily have amassed much more money (why?).

We love our boat bum life. My wife says she has never regretted pulling the plug - not even for a second.

If your cruising becomes a project - meaning you put yourself and your energies into it - then you won't regret.

Don't forget - the saddest words are: It might have been..................

[thomm225]

Originally Posted by Pelagic

I've never retired, because I have never worked!
Everything I have done in my life was because I fell in love with that vocation.

University was never work, because I'm curious

Crewing on tugs and commercial ships was never work because I wanted to learn from the Pros.

Yacht and ship deliveries empowered me to command.

Designing and commanding super yachts was the pinnacle of my satisfaction at sea working for owners who became like family to me

Transitioning at 50 to living at a dive resort was not retirement but a chance to come down from the heady heights of a billionaires lifestyle to a normal pace with fringe benefits of a beautiful native girl and diving from my doorstep

Buying stargazer and enjoying her was not a dream, but and extension of my life and a need for horizon choices

Enthusiasm for life, maintaining that thirst for knowledge and keeping a high standard of detail in whatever you do or learn, is the antidote for any change in lifestyle fears.

Simply put, if you are doing something you love, it is not work and if you are good at it, the money will always follow until you dont need any more,

... Then you should change path and challenge yourself some more!

Well put.

Thanks for posting.

I did University as an adult at 1/2 time, about 8 years. (GI Bill) I quite enjoyed it also. Major was History (of Technology from like the stone age to present day) Finished/graduated in 1988.

[thomm225]

Originally Posted by carstenb

Interesting - both my wife and I were senior executives and both of us loved our jobs - we enjoyed them so much that we would have done them for free (don't tell anyone).

We weren't stressed, even though we worked long hours. We walked away when I was in my early 60's and she was in her mid 50's. We could easily have amassed much more money (why?).

We love our boat bum life. My wife says she has never regretted pulling the plug - not even for a second.

If your cruising becomes a project - meaning you put yourself and your energies into it - then you won't regret.

Don't forget - the saddest words are: It might have been..................

This is what I plan to do ........ as I said I have certain goals to accomplish first locally within say a 250 mile range of here both inside (ICW) and and on the Outside with a look at the Gulf Stream.

Then a quick trip back down to the Redneck Riviera (Florida, Mississippi, Alabama Gulf Coast) then decide if cruising is for me and pick a new destination say the Leeward Islands maybe.

[Midwesterner]

I haven't quite gotten there yet, so I will let you know. I did a 6 year search for the right boat, I have purchased the boat, and now I am working at a post-retirement job to save a little more money before fully retiring.

[thomm225]

Originally Posted by theDangerz

Just because "you know someone who..." doesn't make it the standard or reality.
Not for retirement age and not for your jaded/negative view of cruising based on a couple others who left and returned or never left at all.

The only real question is, WHY you keep wasting our time with these details that have nothing to do with the thread topics:
- Early Retirement
- Reactions from people who have been out cruising

No one is wasting your time except you.

My plan is to cruise and retire earlier than some.

You are a beginner sailor/cruiser just learning to sail and be on the water.

I've been at it for many years and mostly without any instruments at all. No VHF, no depth finder, no compass even until recently.

You learn a lot that way.

I'll never forget trying to find Beaufort Inlet off North Carolina back in the day ('76) when way offshore and low on gas in my 17' power boat and finally seeing a white shape with a wake come out!

[thomm225]

Originally Posted by surf_km55

You know every dog on the planet?

No, I don't know every dog on the planet and don't need to. I know dogs and had about as many of them as I've had boats (12).

There's rarely a reason to hit one like you said you did. That's just lack of understanding.

Even now when I run with my son's dog and he hits his long distance stride with his tongue hanging out it reminds me of the dogs I had that stayed with us when we were on our bikes as kids. They'd follow us everywhere no matter how many miles......they'd just hit their long distance stride and stay with us

[Simi 60]

We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say.

Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

[thomm225]

Originally Posted by Simi 60

We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say.

Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...

Bust heads?

I don't think that works these days ......

Fight Club video removed. Lou's place.