Search results

Thanks for all the great advise. I am definitely taking it all in. Ideally I would prefer a smaller boat in the 40-47ft range but the wife/money maker says she wants a home. Haha... I am not stuck on Hatteras, knowing nothing about large cruising boats the layout is ideal for our needs but I...

I would love to set sail with paid off boat and enough to live aboard 12 months a year with 10k monthly budget plus 25k a year repair budget but if I wait for that we will be 70. Ideally while in our 40s still we want a different life then living in cornfields. I read several places about...

Thanks for the input so far. @SWFLA I just read that thread and I truly hope that I don’t come off as that guy. Through the 8 pages I saw him complaining about minimal expenses. My all in budget for a boat is 150k leaving me 50k for 7 months of cruising. After those 7 months we will work and...

Definitely plan to hire a captain for 2-3 weeks to help me learn to handle the boat safely and how to do things onboard. Also plan to take some courses about boating and offshore boating. My experience on a 18ft ski boat definitely won’t transfer over to a real boat in real water. Haha... When I...

Started out at cruisers forum and the fine people there said trawler forum would be more helpful. My wife and I are both 44 and have decided that we don’t want to live and die looking at cornfields. We talked and both agreed that the cruising lifestyle is the life we want to live and we both...