Wife and I have been sailing our
Sabre 34 on the Chesapeake for the past 16 years. A new Tartan 4300 is being built for us and will be ready for launch in the Spring. Found CF recently while researching stuff to put on the Tartan.
As I phase out of the workforce over the next few years, we plan to start doing a lot more cruising up and down the
east coast, for as long as we stay healthy enough to do it. As the title of this thread suggests, the tradeoff for moving to a bigger
boat is eventually moving to a smaller house--a tradeoff that seems very good to both of us.
We both started sailing while attending a college with a waterfront campus (Eckerd College, on Boca Ciega Bay in St. Petersburg, FL). I spent 27 years in US Air Force before retiring in 1994. During my Air Force career, we moved quite a few times but also found ways to keep sailing. Previous boats have included a little beach cat in
Florida, a
Catalina 22 in
Mississippi, a Hobie 16 in
Texas, and a stretch in Virginia where wife sailed a Sunfish while I and our then-teen-aged daughter and son windsurfed.
- Al
'Bigger Boat, Smaller House'
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