Thank you for an unvarnished and unflinchingly accurate appraisal of 5 big downsides to boat living, but done in a completely lovely and charming way. You guys did a great job being precise and real without trying to sugarcoat it or overplay and demonize it. You were vey easy to listen to. I must say I found it very informative and enlightening. Thank you!

My dad once said: "I could give you many reasons why not to buy a boat but they would be pretty much the same reasons not to have a child. And you're my greatest joy."

buying a boat was the worst financial decision of my life. i now own 4 of them...

Three years ago, at 74, I bought my eighth boat, a 12-foot kayak. The Perception Carolina 12 cost $1,000 (new) and another $1,000 of gear was needed for safety and comfort through three-season paddling. Twice a week, in fair weather or gloomy, I paddle out along the shore for three or four miles, enjoying the motion of the kayak through the water, the sun and clouds, the waterfowl, and the shoreline sights. I am the captain of the ship. When the muscles begin to tire, or over-heating or chill sets in, the course is reversed. Then I return to a temperature-controlled home, enjoy a long shower, and savor a leisurely lunch. I am getting as much pleasure from this boat as from the others, and it has has been far less trouble. Nothing has broken and maintenance has been limited to an hour per season. It is an underrated option for those who want to "cruise" but enjoy the comforts of a landside home on a modest income.

Buying the right boat makes a huge difference. Moisture is the No#1 cause for failures. Wet electronics, wet engine rooms etc; are the main causes. I owned a Commercial fishing boat for 30 years and had annual maintenance, but besides general R&R I had little issues. The big issue with pleasure boats is there are many places where the outside environment gets into soo many areas. An excellent sail boat like a Norsemen 447 along with some sort of DRY heat running all the time will eliminate most issues. Also stick with a manual toilet and plastic water and holding tanks and aluminium fuel tanks. And remember stainless is half as good as it looks and Galvanized is twice as good as it looks. Modern stainless is a disaster. Rust and electrolysis eats right thru it. I've seen stainless propellor shafts cut right in half by electrolysis. A good old iron shaft looks like crap but will last forever. My fishing boat was 60 years old and still going strong. Get rid of all the electronics that are out in the environment. Keep them indoors with dry air circulating. A pilot house vessel is also the best for all of this. I know, in the tropics keeping your gear dry is tough. If you live above the tropics KEEP YOUR BOAT WARM AND DRY. Including your engine room and all of your storage compartments. $50 worth of heat per month will save you thousands $$ and pain in the long run.

Reasons for not owning a house. 1.council tax currently £2000 pa (U.K) 2. Constant maintenance including garden 3. Fuel bills it takes alot to heat a house. 4. Constant cleaning. 5. It's can go down quite significantly. 6. It's static. You wake to the same view every day...how boring is that? 7. Insects rodents and that's just the neighbours !

She gave me a choice, "her or the sailboat". I sure miss her. Solo sailing, LOL

Okay, I'm convinced. No boat for me. Instead, I'll get a friend who has a boat.

As an alternative to owning a home, the maintenance cost and effort of a forty foot sailboat is less. When I had an apartment owning a 40' boat was a joy and a great escape. Now that I own a home, I have electrical work, house painting, weeding, seeding, mowing, pruning, cleaning, servicing heating systems, air conditioning systems, shoveling snow, cutting up trees that storms have knocked over, fixing leaky roofs, repairing windows and screens, insects, water wells, filters, plumbing, flooding, laundries, fridges, etc. As far as I am concerned maintaining my sailboat was much easier to maintain than my small cape on an acre of land, also much cheaper. I pay $11,000 a year alone in property taxes, and that's cheap in my area.

Thanks for the realistic look at living on a boat. Most channels only show the glamour of it.

every boat owner says don't buy a boat, they suck. But we all love our boats and couldn't live without them.

Owning a boat was extremely expensive but so worth the memories. I have no regrets of owning 3 boats in my life but I’m on to other things now. Cheaper things.

we moved to land 3 years ago after 18 years of circumnavigation basically the boat was getting tired and the wallet had shrunk due to a divorce. I cry every day for the freedom and hate Europe with all its bull...! At least we did it and dont regret it

Thanks for the honesty guys. I kind of agree with most of what you said but especially agree with that when times are going well there nothing like boat life. Fair winds and following seas all!

My sailing instructor when I mentioned my goal is to buy a catamaran and sail the oceans, told me several reasons why a cat wasn't a good idea, and then she gave me a tour of her boat - a cat. All the best things I've done there have been excellent reasons why not to do it. The thing is the naysayers are all grumpy about reasons not to, because end of the day they usually don't. Those of us who do... all good information is well worth consideration. Next lesson I mentioned that I'd like to live aboard my sailboat, she took me on a tour of several boats big enough to live on and all the reasons why that's a pain. I got into boating by building a wooden strip glass and epoxy sea kayak. Took me three times longer than I expected, lasted about 6-7 years a lot less than I expected. Regrets? Only that I hadn't done it years earlier. Rats aren't too difficult. Peanut butter, in a tangle of hair or monofilament. They hook a tooth on the hair tug at it, set off the trap. Without the hair you check the trap and think, oh I must've forget to put peanut butter on that one. They just gently licked it clean. Multidays without showers? Merino Wool, maybe cotton, but never synthetics (fleece on an upper layer is okay). synthetics stink. If you want to grow smelly bacteria, polyester is great. Stinky swimsuit or other gear? Hang it up in the sun. Turn it around, inside out. I left my wet swim suit (synthetic, there are exceptions) in the car for a week. It reeked. I washed it twice, washed it with the recommended wet suit deoderizer, even used a little bleach. Nope. Hung it in the sun for hour days. stink all gone. Wool if you hang it up for a day or two smells like lanolin, it's naturally antibacterial. As a backpacker when I switched to wool I stopped smelling awful. It wasn't me, it was polyester.

We have tended to lean toward the definition of cruising as "working on your boat in exotic places".

I owned and lived on my 60 foot commercial fishing boat 15 years. I learned that the proper equipment, properly installed, and properly maintained seldom 'broke'. Very seldom did I see things break or wear out, but you have to stay on top of things 24/7, constant maintenance is a must. Your video was very accurate.

I've owned 3 large sailboats 35 to 45 feet and I've lived on my present one 10 years. I'll never move back onto land.

Thank you. I had never even thought of getting a boat for the reasons you brought out. I will be 70 in November and one of the things I have begun to discover, and I hope I am not unique in this, is that as I have gotten older, I have more of a desire for peace and tranquility in my life. As I have gotten older, it seems that I am less willing to tolerate calamity and upset. I want a smooth road more. I suspect that that has to do with the amount of conflict I have had in life, both outer and inner. I suspect and hope that all human beings are this way. As I have aged the less that I want challenges and it is my opinion, just mine, that all of us get to that point and that it is just a question of time. For all of us I think that we get to the point where we want to "hang it up"...maybe that point comes at 60, maybe at 70 or maybe the day before we pass from this existence.... I admire you both for hanging in there...smooth sailing...

Maintaining a house and an acre of land keeps you busy too.

A friend told me how he was with pen and paper at the table trying to show a caravanner travelling around Australia how it didn't make financial sense with columns for fuel, maintenance, repairs, depreciation, park fees, loss of income etc etc. Satisfied with his logic and costing proof he was met with the response. "You forgot the value of the Fun column". Case closed I guess. Life has many perceptions of value and worth.

I have a friend who brought a second-hand 45 ft boat in immaculate condition it was near new, He is sailing from Greece to Australia very slowly, it's been four years now, and every email or journey update bar none includes stuff that has gone wrong, endless expense. He loves what he is doing but he has the income to do it. Budget sailing, forget it, these kind people are giving out priceless information.

Thanks for the honest assessment of being a sailboat owner. It's easy to believe otherwise when you watch some of the UKposts channels with young couples sailing around the world and (seemingly) always having a great time.

As a former boat owner for 6 years I agree with all 5 things mentioned here . And now that I am retired I am looking to buy another boat .

A great video. Accurate and on point even for a power boater like myself.

It is never expensive if It makes you happy.

Ahh, reluctantly I have to admit this is what I expected to hear and it crushed my years long non-realistic dreams. I am so thankful for your honesty! 🙏

What a lovely couple! Apart from all the sound advice I am so impressed by the 'double act', how you cover the points together alternately and so fluently and harmoniously.

Great video. starting to put my boat plans together. looking exactly at what you are saying, monthly running expenses + slush-fund for regular random stuff. :-)

Love the honesty guys.Shame it's too late for me.Cheers

The reason for this episode is to point out (to those with little experience other than watching sailing channels) that living full-time on a sailboat is not all cocktails, parties and white sand beaches. This amazing lifestyle brings problems as well as the good times. We've been living aboard full-time since 2006 and wouldn't have it any other way. If you watch till the end, you'll hear us say that. The accompanying episode, "5 Reasons Why You Should Buy A Boat" explains why we love this life: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/hnZlmKx-rHua0Ww.html

thank you for the inside and great video. i'm planning to buy my first sailing boat in may 2020 in Istanbul. i'm so excited

Thank you and very well stated realities of boat ownership and the liveaboard lifestyle! I'm with you both and still wouldn't trade it for anything!

My wife and have full timed in our Motorhome for the last year . Boating full time sounds very similar . Things are constantly breaking down . Used or new . Of course being in the middle of the ocean versus a two lane highway in the middle of Montana is better when shit happens ! The best advise I have ever heard 39 years ago. Is to ask yourself. Can I live with my husband or wife in a hallway. The best to all of you who make it happen !

Thanks a lot. Stuff we hear from time to time but need to be reminded of before you take the big leap to full time cruising. Like you said the goal is to have the good times out weight the hardships and the bad times. Cheers and safe cruising! Craig

I'm looking in to buying a boat farther down the road of my life. This video was very educational, but not discouraging enough to make me think twice! I'll have it some day. Thank you very much for sharing.

21 years in 5 submarines got me to where I can sleep on top of diesel engines, use hydraulic oil to comb my hair with and wash my hands, and shower every other week. You know, you can get 4 weeks wear out of one T-shirt. Week 1 - wear it regular. Week 2 - turn it around and wear backwards. Week 3 - turn it inside out and wear front-ways. Week 4 - Inside out, backwards. Of course, the arm pits do get a little crunchy from time to time. hehe. Love the video and the soul searching questions you put in it because I don't think a lot of people really consider the "really togetherness" thing, water rationing affecting hygiene, etc. Thanks for taking time to do it.

Not mine but I agree: ¨I spend most of my money on women, booz and boats. The rest I wasted.¨

I needed a complex hobby in retirement, we have sailed for 40 years and love the light adventure, shared experience and social platform it provides. I agree with the five points here, yet they do not put us off.

Excellent, much appreciated reality check...especially on the destructive capability of a relationship, and unexpected costs. Kudos for putting it out there.

Had a sail boat for 6 years and sailed around the world. Very honest what you say about the 5 reasons not to buy a boat. By rule of thumb it costs 10% of the value of the boat per year for the pleasure regardless of the value eg.a $10M boat cots $1M per year to maintain. That said my wife and I saw places and did things that were fabulous and made friendships with sailor people that have endured. Trust in each other by necessity is enhanced by. We were fortunate to have sold for more than we paid but spent plenty in the middle!

The good thing is, I am a plumber, an electrician, a carpenter, a gardenener, a welder and a mechanic because I live in a house and have cars. I think it comes down to your standards. I always want to know how everything works I own and use to understand it properly and know, when I'm screwed over by service providers. The honest ones get more money from me. So I have no problem with a simple structure like a boat. It's more dense, but less complicated.

The best reality boat advice I’ve come across yet, thanks 😃🔥❤️

this has been so informative, thank you

Not a sailor, but nicely said. Great advice Aloha, Richard

Agree with all of that! I haven't been a live-aboard, but even just having a weekend boat I can tell you lots of hilarious stories of things-gone-wrong. You really need to be okay with the downsides to move forward with this fantasy. That said, if it really is what you are suited for, nothing beats the floating life!

You didn't mention losing things. Truly a phenomenon shared by many in a tiny space. Because there's not enough space, you're continually juggling your possessions to get at the ones you want. This in turn means you bury and misplace things you're going to need again. Cleaning is a bigger chore outside than inside the boat. If you have allergies watch out for the nasty molds that grown inside the boat.

Very good information. I started sailing singlehanded and retired singlehanded. My family would visit at various ports for short sailing days in ideal conditions. I’d never would want to expose them to the nasty ocean conditions that I had to endure many times. I met many unhappy couples and crew at various locations. Taking care of the boat is bad enough in storm conditions without having to worry about seasick incapacitated crew. I have no regrets of my sailing days and storms helped me come to terms about my physical and mental limitations.

I love your no nonsense honest and frank discussions.

Haha I feel you! 3 weeks of boatwork in Martinique with a little kid on the boat! We are so ready to get out of this marina and explore a bit!

You speak the truth! I am some 50+ years sailing, and agree that in spite of the fact that it is a hard life.....the freedom of the open water is irreplaceable by anything ashore,

That was very good, and you are both delightful. Thank you so much. Jack

It's really like a love affair, or a good martiage if it works, in that it's loving the good and the bad equally. I can't tell you how many people I've known, who just buy boats for the joy of tinkering on them, and fixing them up, who really don't even want to take them out of the slip. A good friend of mine is like that and. he has the most beautiful sailboat, that never goes anywhere, that you have ever seen.. But, it makes him happy.

Thank you both for discussing this issue. I know many friends including my husband and I that have only viewed beautiful videos that talk about how lovely and easy it is to have liveaboard lifestyles. You included the relationship aspect thank you so much for including this no one ever thinks about this. Tight quarters I guess it would be important to have sane, supportive, and dedicated partners. Again thank you for having a balanced insight for liveaboard lifestyles. Peace and safe travels

Thank you two. I appreciate all your insight on this lifestyle and the challenges I will face.

I really enjoyed listening to your comments but also saw your smiles of "contentment" at being boat owners. Be safe, blessings and enjoy :)

Super video thanks for sharing love all your videos :)

I learned how to sail, two weeks later took the advanced sailing course. Two week later looked over the classified ads for a good used sailboat. I found a 1982 Catalina 25' sailboat. A few months later I was on board living. I spent over a year living on board. My slip fee was only $125 a month. I had occasions when my motor stopped sometimes because I was careless with how much fuel I was carrying on board. When the engine stops on a sailboat nothing much happens. you pull up the motor, and spread out a couple yards of canvas and you go on the wind. I've sailed into more than on marina that was well protected from wind effect. Sailing flawlessly into your slip the first time is well satisfying. I found it easy to keep my oat clean, and enjoyed tending it. I considered time well spent. I did wind up selling it eventually when I had to deploy for a year, but I think I will return to it again after time wen I get bored with land again.

Thanks for your great video👍👍

If you enjoy boating, buy a small cabin cruiser with a pair of small outboards, sleep out at sea for a few nights per month, eat pot noodles and shit in a bucket.

Biggest problem is most boats are two feet to short.

I know some people remove the paper labels from all cans (and label the ends with a sharpie pen) and never have cardboard boxes on board. Get rid of the roach food and you should have less roaches. Lots of plastic bins.

Awesome considerations! I Hope living on the sea is worth it! Good luck on your travels!

Good job, good advice. I lived 22 years at sea and your advice is very accurate. Thank you for sharing.

Liz and Jamie thanks for keeping it real. I consumed a whole plate of nachos while watching this episode. And they were hot enough to make y'all happy

Excelent! Why I didnt see your channel before? I dream with have my iwn sailboat and live and travel with she, hope is not too late to start (Im 44...). Good winds for you!

Excellent video! Thank you so much 🙏✌️❤️

Well done and so true!

i've owned 7 Boats and Loved every minute of it ... Looking for #8.

You can avoid many of the maintenance tasks by simply upgrading on specific parts. Replace the diesel engine with an electric one. Replace the head with a composting toilet. These two things will get rid of a lot of problems. As for the rest, owning a house will require even more work than owning a boat. It's really is just a matter of choices. Boats are definitely cheaper than homes.

After 30 years I bought a small open sailboat 6.5m to see if I still could handle a sailboat. I learned a lot, especially from my own silly mistakes. Nature, wind, sun and rain out there sailing 2 years now on a small lake. I love it. I learned knots (i had never heard off), how to look, preparations, talking to other enthusiastic sailors, and I learned, how to fix a boat. I like to customize, clean and change things on my small boat. I keep doing this for another three years and then I buy myself a bigger boat. Sailing is fun.

Thank you so much for this video. Great content

Your video should be compulsory viewing for all who undertake RYA qualifications! My only further comment is that mooring fees can be surprisingly expensive too. Terrific video! Next time do it with the sunglasses off, so that we can be further persuaded by the genuine sincerity evident in your eyes! Keep up the good work!

thanks for this video - makes me feel better that I can't afford to become a cruiser :P

Very good infor, thank you so much for sharing🕊

Thanks so much. These are all parts of the adventure. I'm definitely buying a boat now.

It’s so funny what you said in this video! When I was taking my sailing classes in Florida I asked our instructor and Captain if he had a sailboat? He laughed and said I would never own a sailboat I Sail them I put them in the slip and go home . He said the very thing that you said they’re always breaking down and very very expensive to fix

I think lots of bad points of owning a sailboat can be "overcomed" by living and sailing on a Small but sufficient boat. It depends of course of the level of comfort tolerated. But some solos or couples of long term sailors sail and live aboard 24 to 30 ft boats, even for ocean passages, in the "keep it simple" philosophy, and the costs and technical issues at least can be easily reduced this way. Not a big spaceful catamaran but nothing is perfect in life !

Very well done. I think you hit the nail on the head!

I came up with a way to calculate the cost of maintenance. First you put the hull and engine block on the left hand side of the ledger. Then list everything else on the boat. Nuts, bolts, cables, cousins, etc. I mean everything like you are going to build the boat except electronics.Next you price every item, not from the manufacture but what it will cost you down at the local Marine store. Next after you add everything up you will find it adds up to more than the boat cost new. You are paying retail not wholesale. Now take the total from all the "stuff". Now add depreciation of electronics over a three year period. Add it all up and multiply by 10%. That is what you will spend every year on maintenance. And that is assuming you become the plumber, electrician, sailmaker, etc. If you have any labor costs you have to add that to your annual total. Just the way it is. After three boats over 30 years it comes out pretty close. I happen to just love to piddle and repair things. On average I would spend most of every day working on something. If you get the todo list too long you will never catch up.

The tool thing drives me crazy, especially as if I leave stuff out I get told off!

That’s it I’m selling everything I own and buying a sailboat

Great advice! I concur with all that you have said.

Thanks for posting! !!

Befriend a boater, they are the salt of the world. You have to love it. Try being on a small boat for a couple weeks or more you'll see. Things that are different on a sailboat: rain patters loud on the deck and the wind rocks you as the waves lap the hull. In a house you might hear the fridgerator pump and the heater vent or some street noise etc. In a sailboat you can smell when your food is done the space is so small and everything to be discarded is given a second thought that it may have some other use. In a house cooking may be safely relegated to a timer and trash is a few steps away in gigantic bins not carted off the boat. In a boat you are closer to and affected more by nature. You pay more attention to everything around because especially at sea resources are critically finite for survival and you may be the only person available to keep the thing afloat and stay alive in relative comfort. House on the grid you just pay your bills/call a repair person. On a boat especially at sea you must learn to repair most of the things around you. So by default you are in charge of navigation, engineering, electrical, plumbing etc. It's a physical life being on the water. You don't have to be, and, it doesn't make you a hard body but you get tough and sensative at the same time. Just what boat life makes you do. You should please learn to keep your wits about you though some very unwitting people operate boats and I guess only have luck on thier side. Better to have luck and some wits though. A healthy respect for mother nature is helpful along with having some grace of people skills in close quarters maybe lots of travel or camping skills helps.

Hole in the ocean to dump money in, 😂😂 wouldn’t swap my time on the boat for anything, unless it’s for more time on the boat 😘

So practical! Thank you

Love the reality feel to your videos rather than the 'marketed' versions people produce. Maybe one day when I retire, I would love to do this. Cheers

Hi guys, hats off to you for persevering. I bought my first boat aged 61, only a 26' trailer motor sailer, being a first timer and not so young, it's got an outboard engine, and no timber. It was part of the dream along with good sized land (no close neighbours), sea frontage, in the tropics. Call in if you're passing, 7* 30' 16"N - 99* 06' 22"E. I regret waiting so long and not perusing my dream much younger, as I will now never own an ocean cruiser and "take off". One of my best experiences was a trip from Langkawi to Port Said on my ex employers 80' gin palace, except for the French crew! Still a very small place with the wrong people...., but I could see the attraction. One piece of advice regarding the cockroaches, owning a restaurant in Phuket one time, with a walk over doorstep to the kitchen, we had problems also. A sailer gave us this piece of advice, spread Boric acid powder around all the room edges/corners, they tread it into their nest and kill off the whole brood, job done, and it worked a treat. Happy sailing.

Maintenance also depends on the age of the boat you purchase, I’m on my third sailboat. The last two were purchased new, first was 40 foot used 15 years old next 41 foot new now up to 54 new and neither new had any out of the ordinary expenses. While the 15 year old boat over 7 years of ownership probably cost me the difference of just purchasing new. I’ve learned the first 10 years of boat ownership are the easiest maintenance wise.

Yep - excellent advice, thank you. Just about to convert our patrol-class vessel into an explorer yacht, and every day is a relevalation on how much it's going to cost. Having downsized from a large house, to a 2-bed off-grid (batteries, solar, generators, solid fuel...) cottage in the middle of nowhere, we're well prepared (eyes wide open). It's always about water, power, space, and acoustically, when an engine starts making a strange sound, or there's a flicker in the lights, it absolutely cannot be ignored. It always, and without exception, means something is wrong, and it needs to be addressed immediately. Oh, and have spares. Lots of spares!

Really well said!

I owned a 30' keelboat for seven or eight years and sold it because my new wife was not interested in sailing. During that time, I spent far more time working on the boat than I did sailing it. I enjoyed the tinkering for a while but the expense wore on me after a while. When there was a storm, I spent my evening at home worrying about the boat on its mooring. When I was sailing, the responsibility for everyone sailing with me was wearing, as well. The best situation is to find a good friend who owns a sailboat and needs a sailing partner. I didn't believe this until I bought the boat. One of my good friends sold his boat because he had decided it was more pleasant to stand fully clothed in a cold shower, tearing up $20 bills. I loved my boat. But I was happy after it was sold.

This was the most honest and dutiful reminder to all those who dream, as every dream has it's compromises. Lovely to see a couple in alignment with each other and living their dream.

I thank You so much for this Video.

I seriously appreciate you doing this.... It really helps me in my quest to find the right boat. An to really think things through on a more complete real level. I always knew it was hard but few show it. So Thank you both for being completely honest! Fare winds an following sea's ! Peace, Love & Happiness 🤘❤🤓💪⛵🌞🌴🍷❗

Ive thought about a lot of these issues and Ive weighed the pros and cons..(pro to a wiring repair con, I know how to wire up a boat..my brother taught me and he's a marine electrician..con of it ... havent messed with it a bit so I will need to refresh myself on a few things to feel warm and fuzzy about it) sails and sail repair...Ive made sails ..for other people of course ..plus they werent for large boats, and I do plan on getting a boss mechanical sewing machine to repair my sails (it can also double and a quick fix for clothing repairs and salon cushion making (another way to make money while in port somewhere)..helps that my mom was a seamstress and did all sorts of random work....I was her asst for yrs and have a few weird tales that I should keep to myself on odd requests from customers lol) engines...now here is a great pro to a con....I was the only girl in my HS to ever take shop class (4 yrs in a row) in that class I rebuilt multiple car as well as boat engines ( my senior project was to repair and install a old ferry boat engine that had locked up, and it had to run for at least one hour and actually move the boat up the Mississippi river .... it worked lol..from what I found out that old Ford ran on my repairs for 3 yrs before it went in for a new check up) shhh dont say it, I know...Im a bit of a oddball in my skill choices..if its different from the everyone else.......I want to do it lol. But I can fix my own car..cook my own food, make my own clothing as well as other things, and last but not least since I have had a multitude of "iffy" landlords......I can do a lot in repairing and replacing plumbing issues...now money..Ive held a ton of job...and tend to get them when I need them most..(I have a income from a few wise investments but if I need a bit extra I tend to find odd jobs and do pretty well at it ...and Im frugal as hell lol ...I enjoy a good life but Im always conscious of spending and how to get the biggest bang for my buck.) Ive always been considered the gypsy of the family, never settling in one spot for more that a yr or so...usually only a few months, I love change and to see whats around the next corner (Im a bit like my gramps on that....he was a merchant marine for ages so he could ramble the world and see whats out there...I think he would approve of what Im planning .... even if the rest of the family thinks Ive gone and lost my marbles..they dont understand what its like to want and need to see new things and meet new people( Ive done the backpacking across Europe and Ive spit off the Great Wall of China ...but there's more to see of this world by water)....there's nothing wrong with a healthy bit of skepticism or fear..but you cannot let in run your life..I don't, I have been wanting to see more of the world and frankly I hate flying so this is the best way in my book to just sail) I love that you made this video so it wakes a few up and to the good and bad of making this choice for a life ............. and I still can wait for my new travels to begin..(I think I may have found a seawitch that needs some love but still has a lot left in her ... Im off to see her in 2 weeks and I am going to be brutal on my personal "servey" of her...make a pro and con list to see if she's worth my time and funds to get her off the hard and back into ship shape. (she's been on the hard for a couple of yrs due to health issues of the owner sad to say ) sorry to be so long winded ...keep up the great work you two...

I'm working on my list of 555 reasons not to live on land.

Thank you for being so honest. You two are so cute, and it must be true love that keeps you together. I'm currently in the middle of it all as a cruiser on an older sailing vessel. Admittedly, I have never been so challenged my entire life, but I do try to enjoy every minute. A true adventure is what it is, and I never would have been able to imagine what I have already experienced in my wildest dreams. I am a motorhead, but under it all, I truly love sailing and sailboats. Thank you for all of your presentations. I have watched many before and enjoy each and everyone. G.

Thank you for your honest opinion! I doubted whether I would buy a sailboat! Buying is not the problem, rather the recurring maintenance.