After reflecting at length on various alternatives, including the boat to change in favor of a more habitable and live a little above, I finally made my decision. I have been helped in this by some ten days spent at home with the flu, during which, unable to do anything else, I have consulted with the necessary calm, charts, pilot charts, pilot books and websites meteorology and navigation.
Sometimes, to catch a decision will need to unplug the plug from the everyday routine, during which, often without realizing it, we do not have time to think about anything. As for me, often live my weeks as the tunnel in which within a headlong run, panting to get out after seven days without myself even realize how he went all that time. It 's a thing in my life that I'd like to change.
My reflections on future voyages led me to a crossroads, where future options will be subject to a series of questions to which answers must be precise and relevant. I suspect that many of us dream of living on a boat sailing between the atolls of the Pacific or wandering the world without any problems or constraints, without any kind of chores. Many also dream a hammock, and beaches and palm trees on the horizon and the sun always the sun ...
embracing a lifestyle choice is not so radical for all, since over the front of the boat moored in the harbor at sunset, there are other issues to worry that, if unforeseen, could transform our dream into a nightmare. Islands in the Atlantic and the Caribbean, not surprisingly, is quite common to find, at surprisingly good, boats for sale that belonged to people who have given up the shot a few months after his departure from Europe ...
To understand what I really want to do, I asked myself a few, but detailed questions
- The solo sailing for me?
If you decide to change boat, opting for a model that would allow me to live on [in case the model is almost permanently chosen: a 27/274/28 Vancouver's Northshore Pheon or ], I find it inevitable to sail single-handed most of the time.
> To respond, I decided to sail alone from Faro, where it is now winter, the Dreamer, to Sardinia, taking steps to be defined, but one of which is a fixed point: Mahon. The best period is from April, and I have enough time for the small actions I planned on board.
- The type of life that make sailors who roam the Pacific or the world for me?
- What are the islands where you can live with a little dignity?
- What are the places where a Westerner is better accepted and is You can easily find a job?
- What are the pros and cons of living on a boat? Unexpected? Cost?
> To respond, I intend to spend a sailing boat with others, trying to sail to or equal contribution to the cost. As a port of embarkation seems ideal Las Palmas, Canary Islands, in order to make the Atlantic crossing and then to the Pacific may be changing the boat and crew in Panama. The rest of the trip is to be decided. A good time to start the trip from November onwards.
That's it. Once you have found answers to my questions, I'll know what to do, whether to sell the boat and become fully terrestrial, and change it if go to live on, if you keep my Marieholm 26 and move to an island but on the ground or whatever.
The Dreamer, my Marieholm 26, remains on sale , since finding a buyer for a boat so do not seem so easy and takes time. Obviously, any transaction becomes subject to the navigation I am going to take, so the boat will be available once they arrive at the port of destination in Sardinia, near Cagliari should be ...
