Hello shlept, and welcome.
We have a sister site that concerns itself with
power boats, whereas this site is populated mainly with "rag wavers" :-) The
power boat site is here:
https://www.socialknowledge.com/comm...trawler-forum/
I can certainly sympathize with a desire to escape the winters of "Sunny Alberta" :-). However, you say nothing about your seafaring
experience or about your practical skills as they relate to ship's husbandry. Hazarding a guess that, as an Albertan, you are familiar with heavy
equipment and not least with large
diesel driven pick-up trucks, I will start by saying that much knowledge thus derived is indeed applicable to large powerboats. However, such knowledge constitutes but a minuscule proportion of what you have to know to be a successful and happy seafaring man, and very little of what a seafaring man needs to know is intuitive. It is gained through much hard book-larnin' over many years, backed up by actual seafaring under competent skippers.
If you tell us something about your actual seafaring
experience, what your shoreside
trade or profession is, whether your use of the pronoun "we" implies that your wife will be your crew, and if so whether she is 100% in support of your desire or whether perhaps she is consenting to your "plan" out of wifely loyalty, we can offer counsel that is more than mere throw-away comments. Tell us also if
children are to be among the crew.
Realize that if you would be live-aboards, ninety percent or more of your time will be spent alongside or on the hook, i.e. you will be living in accommodation that by the nature of things, most specifically in regard to physical dimensions, will be grossly inferior to any shoreside accommodation you will be accustomed to. You will also find that while in Alberta you can hop in the Ram350 and blow 10 miles down the highway to pick up a quart of milk, while
living aboard you may well have to rely on Shank's pony to do that job.
So before you make dispositions that can be costly to reverse, I recommend that you contact a
Vancouver firm that offers week long cruises in the Straits of
Georgia. Go for a 2 week
cruise in the Gulf Islands to see if you, and your wife, really like being aboard ship. Many don't. Most particularly, many
women find it a trial.
All the best to you and your
family.
TrentePieds
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