murph935
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With the youngest child graduating college and leaving the nest, the wife and I have decided to pull the trigger and set out on our dream. We are selling the house and buying a liveaboard to sail the Great Loop. (most likely a 40'-45' trawler.)
I am semi retired and she is self employed, I work in radio and will just do my show from the boat but she on the other hand is an upholsterer. While we won't exactly need the money from her upholstery gig to keep us financially afloat, we were thinking about taking her business on the trip with us.
Here is the thought....if we posted a schedule of sorts of our planned stops along the loop, I'm thinking she could line up cushion recovering's, dinghy cover repair etc. ahead of arriving in the port. We will be in no hurry as we travel so wherever she picks up work, we can stay until it's complete, then move on to the next port and hopefully line up jobs prior to our arrival. Naturally we'd setup a website where a fellow boater in need of upholstery work could pick the fabric they'd like, see samples of her work and our travel itinerary etc.
It would take some promotion and advertising in the right places but what do you think? Would this be a service fellow boaters could/would use? Again, we don't exactly need the money but she wants to contribute if she can while we travel. With the work she gets doing boat related upholstery in her land based business, we thought we might be able to take it on the trip with us.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks,
Murph 935
I am semi retired and she is self employed, I work in radio and will just do my show from the boat but she on the other hand is an upholsterer. While we won't exactly need the money from her upholstery gig to keep us financially afloat, we were thinking about taking her business on the trip with us.
Here is the thought....if we posted a schedule of sorts of our planned stops along the loop, I'm thinking she could line up cushion recovering's, dinghy cover repair etc. ahead of arriving in the port. We will be in no hurry as we travel so wherever she picks up work, we can stay until it's complete, then move on to the next port and hopefully line up jobs prior to our arrival. Naturally we'd setup a website where a fellow boater in need of upholstery work could pick the fabric they'd like, see samples of her work and our travel itinerary etc.
It would take some promotion and advertising in the right places but what do you think? Would this be a service fellow boaters could/would use? Again, we don't exactly need the money but she wants to contribute if she can while we travel. With the work she gets doing boat related upholstery in her land based business, we thought we might be able to take it on the trip with us.
Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks,
Murph 935