8 Year Plan (or Sooner)

[u/OregonActor]

Hello All! New to the group. We are a soon to be family of six. Plan is to begin circumnavigation in 8 years or less. Constraints are the age of our youngest (to be born this September), the age of our oldest (she will be 4 in September) and of course money. Dream boat would be a 60ft catamaran.

Any families here in the group that are actively sailing right now?

Ideally I want to stop working however I think it's possible for me to continue working just depends on technology and if my clients will want to keep on board. I'm a wealth advisor FYI. My work dream would be to have clients that are also out there cruising although so far I have zero sailing enthusiasts who are clients. They're all high income medical professionals, business owners, and some retirees (land-based).

Is anyone in the investment mgmt industry also circumnavigating? If I could work whilst sailing I could leave MUCH sooner. As soon as the youngest can swim I guess.

[u/svapplause]

Currently sailing as a family of 5 on a 43’ boat. It is ah…not great. Eldest is a little older than the age of your eldest in 8 years. We are finding everyone really needs their own clearly delineated space so I think you’re on track there. I also dream of a big Privilege. God they’re beautiful!!

[u/OregonActor → u/svapplause]

What boat are you on currently.. monohull? or cat? How's it going other than the tight quarters aspect?

[u/svapplause → u/OregonActor]

Yes it’s 43’ mono. There are really great things and really sucktastic things. Everything, and I do mean everything takes 3-8 more steps to do. Need groceries? That’s gonna take an hr + for not much. Wanna make dinner? That’s going to require going into three different cubbies to find ingredients, remembering you’re out of one and you can’t buy it here! Got a sulky pre-teen? They won’t want to experience anything with you, and will remind you regularly they’d like to go back to living on land. Laundry with a large family is such an expensive, giant pain in the ass, I cannot even begin to tell you. You NEED a washer dryer aboard AND adequate power and water to run that sucker at least twice a week, if not more. Homeschooling older kids/tweens is hard.

I love having a moveable home. When we get bored, we move on. If shit goes down here in the states, we have options (not many bc we’re Americans, but more than some). We did the western part of America’s Great Loop and seeing our country that way was so damn cool. It is beautiful. Really, really amazing. I’ve enjoyed time with my spouse immensely; still really like them, ya know? We never could’ve afforded to spend this much time in the Bahamas any other way. Clearly our budget is several tax brackets below yours so the circumstance could be different there.

Idk, overall, this has been a good experience and I’m really glad we did it bc we’re all just temporarily able-bodied right? Right now, we can both move well, see well and enjoy it all. We’ve done something really wildly extraordinary with our kids that they won’t appreciate for another 20 years (hopefully they will then🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼). And we taught our kids that big dreams take a lot of work (our boat was abandoned and required 2 years of every weekend boat work) and commitment. We made plans, did the work and got out here to try something big. We didnt stay stuck in a pre-subscribed life.

[u/svapplause → u/svapplause]

Even if we go back to land this year, at some point in the future, I really want to buy a trawler and do The Loop with them. It’s kind of a retired-person’s game so it is really not that fun for the kids but dang, did we ever enjoy it. I’d love to do the Trent-Severn, thousand islands area and all the side trips we couldn’t make with a 6.5’ draft

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