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Our Cruising Plan Conversation and When We’ll Set Sail

By on November 5, 2014

Megan and I went out to grab some sushi about 2 Friday’s ago. My plan, other than stuffing sushi rolls down my face and having a cold Saporo, was to have a conversation with her about our plans to set sail in four years.

Needless to say, It worked!

Basically, I wanted to make sure that she was in. I wanted to make sure that we shared the mindset that nothing was going to stop us, and setting sail in 2018 was our ultimate goal.

Sure, things could change. We could have a child. Either one of us could have a career change. We could win the lottery and go in six months. Either way, we decided that none of those things changes our plans to be living on a boat in 4 years.

For example, let’s take the whole pregnancy and having a chile thing into account. I talked to Jamie and Behan from Totem a couple of weeks ago and I think we’d take a page out of their book. Some people have infants aboard and I applaud them and they do it VERY WELL. We just don’t think we want to take that on. Sure, we’ll have an infant on our lake boat. We’ll make sure our child can swim, and knows their way around the water and a boat. But I THINK we’d rather wait until our currently fictitious child(ren) is 4 or 5 years old before we untie the dock lines to cross oceans.

That doesn’t mean that we won’t be living on a boat in four years. In fact, living on a boat is the foundation of our plan. We probably won’t take off for the Caribbean or other far away islands for 5 or 6 years, but we WILL be living on a sailboat. We may be in a marina or two. We may be cruising up and down a U.S. Coast doing shakedown sails. We may still be working on land! As long as we are living afloat, we will consider our plans successfully executed.

Why will we wait so long? The biggest reason is Megan’s student loans from Duke. We want to have them paid off and out of the way. Megan got her Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Duke. Duke is great school, but it is also a private school, and Megan is currently working for a Non-Profit hospital.

We have a program and a goal set up to pay off her student loans in 2018 (so really, it’s only 3.5 years). We also have people renting a townhouse that we own. Their lease isn’t up until August of 2015. It will go on the market 60 days prior to their lease expiring.

Once all of that is taken care of we will be down to the house that we live in, and a whole lot of stuff to get rid of. There are items stuffed in closets somewhere that haven’t used in over a year. Getting rid of those non-used items is our next step.

We also have things that we will use up until the day we’re floating. You know, we like sleeping on a comfortable bed. The frame may not be necessary, but the mattress will be one of the last things to go in September of 2018.

So, four years to floating is the timeline we came up with while eating sushi and throwing back some hot sake. Could it be done quicker? Possibly. I’m sure I’ll share some interviews on the Sail Loot Podcast with some people that have made it happen in 6 months, or a year. Our plan is October 2018 and we’re sticking to it.

Now it’s time to start taking pictures and putting things up for sale on Craigslist. After all, we’ve got to make our Sail Loot somehow!

Teddy

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About Teddy

I am a 37 year old that just wants to find a way to make a remote income, gather some Sail Loot and cruise the world! I have been sailing for a couple of years now, but mostly on 10 day trips as vacationing crew. I just recently took sailing to the next level by completing my Basic Keelboat, Basic Cruising, and Bareboat Cruising Certifications! I am also Vice President of a Medical Consulting Company, have a Mechanical Engineering degree from Georgia Tech, and have taken several Coding, Computing, and Online Business courses. It's time to share what I have learned!

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