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19-01-2019, 08:11
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Between Caribbean and Canada
Boat: Murray 33-Chouette & Pape Steelmaid-44-Safara-both steel cutters
Posts: 8,604
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Still a cruiser or a FLOATER?
Am I still a cruiser if I live in the boat but never go anywhere? We arrived in St Martin 5 weeks ago and have no definite plans to leave yet. We’ve been doing various boat chores, little jobs like sanding and retaining the entire deck including non skid. Was think about redoing the soles next.
Have I devolved into a FLOATER?
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19-01-2019, 08:52
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#2
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Good question
Boat: Rafiki 37
Posts: 14,228
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Re: Still a cruiser or a FLOATER?
I call it cruising. Mostly though, I just call it life .
Two seasons ago we travelled down the St. Lawrence, putting on some 1800 nm of pretty challenging sailing. This past year we travelled 30 nm, sailing (actually motoring) to a nearby anchorage, and staying put till the air turned cold.
I don’t care what people call it. It’s all good .
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19-01-2019, 08:57
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#3
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: ABC's
Boat: Prout Snowgoose 35
Posts: 1,756
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Re: Still a cruiser or a FLOATER?
5 weeks isn't long enough. I'd say if you haven't moved in a year, then you're a floater.
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19-01-2019, 12:24
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Carlsbad, CA
Boat: 1976 Sabre 28-2
Posts: 7,505
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Re: Still a cruiser or a FLOATER?
It took us nearly six months to cruise three islands/six anchorages in the Marquesas. It's not about the number of places or distances covered but enjoying your time while there.
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'Ae'a, Pearson 35
'Ms American Pie', Sabre 28 Mark II
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19-01-2019, 12:42
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Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Solent, England
Boat: Moody 31
Posts: 18,476
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Re: Still a cruiser or a FLOATER?
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Originally Posted by hpeer
Have I devolved into a FLOATER?
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Are you enjoying life? if so then it doesn't matter. There was ice on the road when I rode to work on Thursday. Friday it was raining. If you are able to maintain a good life style in a nice place then enjoy. You don't have to do the mileage that the likes of Delos do each year.
Pete
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19-01-2019, 13:38
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CLOD
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: being planted in Jacksonville Fl
Boat: none
Posts: 20,424
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Re: Still a cruiser or a FLOATER?
Quote:
Originally Posted by hpeer
Am I still a cruiser if I live in the boat but never go anywhere? We arrived in St Martin 5 weeks ago and have no definite plans to leave yet. We’ve been doing various boat chores, little jobs like sanding and retaining the entire deck including non skid. Was think about redoing the soles next.
Have I devolved into a FLOATER?
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5 weeks! Still a cruiser till you don’t reslly care what’s growing on the bottom.
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Don't ask a bunch of unknown forum people if it is OK to do something on YOUR boat. It is your boat, do what you want!
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19-01-2019, 14:38
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#7
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: W Carib
Boat: Wildcat 35, Hobie 33
Posts: 13,486
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Re: Still a cruiser or a FLOATER?
5 weeks...thats nothing! I helped move a boat to Grenada a few years ago. As we entered the anchorage I noticed a familiar boat which belonged to a friend of mine about 15 years prior. I assumed it must have changed owners by now, but as we putted past...the owner I knew years ago popped his head out...wow a blast from the past! I dropped by later to chat. He said he had been there for 10 years now. In Grenada you mean? No, literally anchored right here in this spot! He had not moved in 10 years!
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20-01-2019, 08:49
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#8
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Moored in Anacortes, Wa
Boat: Rawson 30PH
Posts: 260
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Re: Still a cruiser or a FLOATER?
In the PNW, a floater is what the city of Victoria releases into The Salish Sea 😉
Leads to large halibut though ...
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20-01-2019, 09:25
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: San Diego
Boat: Kelly Peterson 46
Posts: 103
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Re: Still a cruiser or a FLOATER?
I would say liveaboard, but as long as you’re not a dirt dweller you are still living the dream!
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20-01-2019, 09:32
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Cruising Mexico
Boat: Norseman 400
Posts: 434
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Re: Still a cruiser or a FLOATER?
Does your boat still run? Are you spry enough to get it off the dock?
"Floaters" are boats or people who are no longer capable of leaving the dock.
Floaters eventually become derelicts. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of them (boats and people) in Mexico.
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20-01-2019, 10:12
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#11
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Oregon City, OR
Boat: 37 Uniflite Coastal Cruiser
Posts: 800
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Re: Still a cruiser or a FLOATER?
If you got there on your own bottom and you'll leave the same way - whenever, you're a cruiser.
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20-01-2019, 10:41
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#12
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Presently single handing IN Indonesia
Boat: 1980 Southern Cross 39
Posts: 206
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Re: Still a cruiser or a FLOATER?
I love to arrive at a destination Country and sometimes stay the whole cyclone season in one area. The wonderful thing about that is you end up meeting some really great people. To my mind thats when you are really experiencing the culture.
I will say I believe both the Carribean and Mexico can be traps that can and will easily keep you from world cruising.
As previously stated there are many types of cruisers. Myself...I am a slow cruiser. Left Seattle in 2010 and have only made it to Australia. I have lifelong friends in every one of those areas I slowly cruised.
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20-01-2019, 11:17
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#13
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: puget sound washington
Boat: 1968 Islander bahama 24 hull 182, 1963 columbia 29 defender. hull # 60
Posts: 12,183
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Re: Still a cruiser or a FLOATER?
Do you fit this definition of cruiser?
Cruiser : noun. Meaning , repairing a boat in exotic locations .
If it fits your still a cruiser and not a dirter.
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Non illigitamus carborundum
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20-01-2019, 11:24
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#14
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: W Carib
Boat: Wildcat 35, Hobie 33
Posts: 13,486
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Re: Still a cruiser or a FLOATER?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sailor647
Does your boat still run? Are you spry enough to get it off the dock?
"Floaters" are boats or people who are no longer capable of leaving the dock.
Floaters eventually become derelicts. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of them (boats and people) in Mexico.
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Not just in Mecixo...
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20-01-2019, 11:29
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#15
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: W Carib
Boat: Wildcat 35, Hobie 33
Posts: 13,486
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Re: Still a cruiser or a FLOATER?
Quote:
Originally Posted by philiosophy
I love to arrive at a destination Country and sometimes stay the whole cyclone season in one area. The wonderful thing about that is you end up meeting some really great people. To my mind thats when you are really experiencing the culture.
I will say I believe both the Carribean and Mexico can be traps that can and will easily keep you from world cruising.
As previously stated there are many types of cruisers. Myself...I am a slow cruiser. Left Seattle in 2010 and have only made it to Australia. I have lifelong friends in every one of those areas I slowly cruised.
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Im a slow cruiser too, but even slower...left the USA in 2004...now in Panama. I prefer to really get to know an area, not just tick it off the list.
Polar oppossite would be the ARC World...they do a circumnav in 15 months!
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