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30-03-2009, 09:58
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Bradenton FL
Boat: Med Yachts 62 Trawler
Posts: 1,180
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One Step Closer - Liveaboards!
I can't believe we're now homeless .... except for the boat that is 
Full-time liveaboards at last!
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30-03-2009, 11:42
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Northern California
Boat: finally a catamaran dive boat...
Posts: 505
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right on... gettin out while the gettin's good huh? What's the next step? Provisiona and departure?
db
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30-03-2009, 11:53
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CF Adviser
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Virginia
Boat: Island Packet 380, now sold
Posts: 8,943
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Congrats on achieving "homeless" status, Mark! Where are you planning to cruise, and where do you keep your boat now? Mine's in Twin Dolphin Marina, across the river from Palmetto.
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30-03-2009, 12:18
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: We're technically refugees from our home in Yemen now living in Lebenon
Boat: 1978 CT48
Posts: 5,970
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Congratulations.
A toast is in order..."To your new life"...cheers!
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James
S/V Arctic Lady
I love my boat, I can't afford not to!
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30-03-2009, 12:24
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W
Boat: (Cruiser Living On Dirt)
Posts: 51,573
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"If you didn't have the time or money to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time/$ to fix it?"
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30-03-2009, 12:33
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Back to the game
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Medellin, Colombia
Boat: Pearson Countess 44 wannabe
Posts: 545
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Glad to find another homeless person here, I have been homeless for the last two weeks and I must say that it feels great to be land homeless and be on the boat 
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30-03-2009, 14:25
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Bradenton FL
Boat: Med Yachts 62 Trawler
Posts: 1,180
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hud3
Congrats on achieving "homeless" status, Mark! Where are you planning to cruise, and where do you keep your boat now? Mine's in Twin Dolphin Marina, across the river from Palmetto. |
Thanks Hud - we've seen your boat there many times. Looks great but I'd rather live in Nevis We're at Regatta Pointe for the time being.
Shakedown cruise to Naples area next week, then back here mid-April to tie up some loose ends and do the final 'gut check' with the Admiral to see if we're going to venture blindly into the sunset. We'll be US coastal & Bahamas until next winter, then hopefully down your way.
Scary / exhilarating all at once ... 
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30-03-2009, 15:48
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: SierraVista, Arizona
Boat: 27' Norsea
Posts: 62
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Congradulation Mark. We plan on being liveaboards by the middle of July. We have a 27' Norsea. Our shakedown will be the Baja Ha Ha. Then we are off to the Papagos and New Zealand.
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30-03-2009, 17:08
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Skagit City, WA
Posts: 25,752
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Congrats.... Oh the memories......
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30-03-2009, 18:19
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CF Adviser
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: sausalito
Boat: 14 meter sloop
Posts: 7,260
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time to adjust your thinking...
...because houseless isn't necessarily homeless.
It will get even stranger, of course. At some point you'll have departed from the "home" marina, and then, when you're about to return, you'll think, "time to go home." But then you'll realize you're already home, because you took it with you. Home left the neighborhood for a short time, but you never left home.
Congrats, one way or the other. And welcome to the club.
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31-03-2009, 01:00
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Long Range Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Australian living on "Sea Life" currently in England.
Boat: Beneteau 393 "Sea Life"
Posts: 12,820
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Congratulations Mark!
Now just slip those lines!
Mark
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02-04-2009, 08:35
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Cruising the Caribbean
Boat: Tayana 37 "SAILACIOUS"
Posts: 201
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We also are in Palmeto and planning to be homeless in the next few months. We depart at the end of hurricane season for (some) years in the Caribbean. Our shake down cruise is 2 weeks the first half of May to Key West and the Dry Tortugas.
Hud, I was surprised to hear you are here. your profile says Nevis, AH...Piney's Beach...
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www.sailacious.com
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02-04-2009, 08:52
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CF Adviser
Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Virginia
Boat: Island Packet 380, now sold
Posts: 8,943
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Hi, Janice.
I am here (Nevis), the boat is there (Bradenton). It's (unfortunately) for sale. Pinneys Beach is still here (Nevis), tho' battered by Hurricane Omar. Pass by when you get to de ilons, mon!
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02-04-2009, 09:25
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Puget Sound, Washington
Boat: s/v Annapurna (Contessa 26)
Posts: 24
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It's much more interesting than living on land huh?
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02-04-2009, 09:46
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Lived aboard & cruised for 45 years,- now on a chair in my walk-in closet.
Boat: Morgan OI 413 1973 - Aythya
Posts: 8,497
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As Bash said, "it will get even stranger", but then after time home on the boat will be the norm. We've been living in our normal home on board for 38 years. 'take care and joy, Aythya crew
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