Sorry to hear. Will you still be hanging out here?
Menzies, absofreakinlutely. We're selling the boat not because of the cancer/chemo stuff I'm going through but for a different reason. When we bought Beachcomber 10 years ago we did it with the dream of spending an entire summer in Puget Sound and Canadian waters. My MIL was 94 at the time and we figured she'd have another 3-5 years before she was gone.
So here we are, 10 years later and she's still doing well. She's in a long term care facility but still healthy. She's losing some of her cognitive ability but heck, she could go on for another 3-5 years. Who knows?
We wouldn't take that trip while she's still alive because sure as hell we'd be somewhere where there was no cell signal and something would happen to her and we wouldn't find out for a week or two. Tina and her mom are VERY close and she would never forgive herself for not being there.
One other thing we've always wanted to do is a motorhome trip across the country. There are so many beautiful areas of the US that we've never seen and we want to do that before I get too darned old to handle a motorhome. I needed to get my CDL to be able to drive the school busses last year. Most of those are in the 40' size so driving a 35' motorhome will be relatively easy.
So now seemed to be the perfect time to change from cruising on water to cruising on land. Tina asked me a few weeks ago if I could really sell Beachcomber. My answer was easy: I love the boat, but I'm not IN LOVE with the boat.
Never in my younger years as a working dude raising a family would I ever have guessed that I'd be lucky enough to be skippering a boat like Beachcomber. That in itself is a dream come true, but it's time to change horses for something different.
We've been looking around (just a tiny bit) for a Class A motorhome in the 33-35 foot range. I don't have a real preference for gas vs diesel, it will depend more on the coach itself. And, being the resident TF Cheapskate, it will depend on the price. But you guys already knew that, didn't you!
By way of a PS, we will still have our 13' Whaler to run around in when we want to hit the water.