Buy A Boat! A fixer upper of course.
Outfit with the necessities. The old salts tell you that you must have rubber boots. You’ll never need them, but they make lovely wildflower vases or rum bottle holders. 🙄
Purchase electronics; charts, auto pilot, depth finder, radar and AIS. Also backup paper charts, electronics can fail.
Provision fuel, water, food (including emergency Spam rations and canned potatoes)
Don’t forget wine and/or rum. It’s necessary post anchoring recovery. You’ll learn.
Set sail, preferably to a tropical local.
Embrace never again being totally still, including hereafter on land. Wobbly land legs are real.
Set a course. Turn off radar and AIS, ghost mode.
Sail on…
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Mary Haynes
Mary Haynes splits her time between a romantic old sailboat in tropical waters and a beach home in Ontario. A wanderer, by fate, she embraces wherever she roams! Mary recently completed her first children’s book, “Who Ate My Peppers?”
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