Waiting not so patiently

[Hei Matau]

Hey Yall!
Ive been lurking here after recieving a not so welcome welcome on that other board. You guys seam to be a little more laid back.
Anyhow the wife and I have finally started to get serious about selling the house and making the break from land. (ive been serious for about eight years. The Admirel took a little more proding) Anyway, we are starting to look at selling it all buying the boat and moving aboard for our last four to five years of working for the man:rolleyes:
Looking forward to grilling you guys for info.
Hei Matau
(I know I missspelled Hei Matau when I signed up , anyway to fix it without a hassel?)

[jkd]

welcome aboard and good luck in your search.

If correct spelling was a requirement here there would only be about 10 members (and I would have been thrown out long ago). PM one of the mod's and they should be able to fix you up.

John

[Talbot]

Spellin on yere aint quit wot ppppppppppepple constipate on

::)::)::)::)

Anyway welcome. some of us are so laid back that its difficult to tell the difference when they lay down.:D

[ForumAdmin]

Welcome and your name is now correct .... I think:)

[ireaney]

Very Welcome :):):)
Looking forward to your questions, which I can't answer, but I know that many more experienced guys here can and will, so I can learn even more :)

[Hei Matau]

Paul... thanks for fixen my screwup!!!
Mechanicallly im good ......spelling not so much:D
Thanks for the welcome!
Hei Matau

[Maxingout]

Welcome aboard.

We talked for eleven years about moving on board before we finally made the jump to liveaboard status. We lived on board for six months, and then took off on our trip.

Living on board involves big compromises in most areas of your life, and it takes more than a few days to rid yourself of the ambivalence that raises its ugly head in your heart and mind.

My moment of greatest ambivalence on board Exit Only happened a couple of months before we started our circumnavigation. I needed to renew a cruising permit, and I had to do an overnight trip across the Gulf Stream to the Bahamas, never having sailed at night. Foolishly, I sailed after dark out of the breakwater in Fort Lauderdale into very rough seas without first raising my sails. Once outside the breakwater in the dark, I struggled to raise the mainsail, and I got seasick - the only time I have ever been seriously seasick on Exit Only. For the next 12 hours I was as sick as a dog. I had just quit my job to sail around the world, I had told my friends of my plan, and I couldn't even sail to the Bahamas without being seasick. I couldn't believe my predicament. How was I ever going to sail around the world? What would my friends and colleagues say? I couldn't believe that I had spent a mountain of money inflicting misery on myself. It was a very inauspicious start on my first overnight sail.

If I had simply raised my mainsail before I went out of the breakwater most of the misery and ensuing ambivalence would never have occurred.

We sailed Exit Only from the Bahamas back to Fort Lauderdale without any seasickness, and sailed a total of six times before we started our circumnavigation. We were lucky to have a good boat that took care of us. I learned that I am prone to seasickness at the start of a voyage, and from that day forward, I raised my sails in daylight before going out of breakwaters. Seasickness and ambivalence regarding living on board has not been a problem since.

[imagine2frolic]

If you weren't born into sailing, or have a mentor. It is a huge learning curve. Well, maybe more like the shuttle taking off. Nearly verticle for a very long time::).......i2f

[Capt. Terry]

Ah seasickness! When it first hits you afraid your going to die, then your afraid you won't!::) Capt. Terry