I'd say you dodged a bullet (mains'l, boom?) there JB. Sure it seems like it will be all Balmain divorcees and typing out copy on the deck with the sun rising behind you. But then a week's worth of summer squalls blow in and you're just dodging seasickness and realising that none of doors or windows close properly.
And it comes with costs, including but not limited to; the mooring, fuel for any motor, licensing your good self to navigate the thing, insurance etc.
And then there’s maintenance; dragging the thing out of the water to scrape off the barnacles, painting the hull with fowling to try and limit their re-growth, caulking if it’s a wooden hull.
And you need somewhere to park you car.
I had an uncle who was a yachtie, and I spent some time with him doing said tasks one summer hols.
Despite all that, I also sometimes wonder what life would have been like as a yachtie.
I'd say you dodged a bullet (mains'l, boom?) there JB. Sure it seems like it will be all Balmain divorcees and typing out copy on the deck with the sun rising behind you. But then a week's worth of summer squalls blow in and you're just dodging seasickness and realising that none of doors or windows close properly.
And it comes with costs, including but not limited to; the mooring, fuel for any motor, licensing your good self to navigate the thing, insurance etc.
And then there’s maintenance; dragging the thing out of the water to scrape off the barnacles, painting the hull with fowling to try and limit their re-growth, caulking if it’s a wooden hull.
And you need somewhere to park you car.
I had an uncle who was a yachtie, and I spent some time with him doing said tasks one summer hols.
Despite all that, I also sometimes wonder what life would have been like as a yachtie.
MacGyver lived on a houseboat, just saying...
as alternative timelines go, that could have been a good one. I spent a month in a houseboat on the Hawkesbury River I have had worse months.
is a stick on a boat an oar or a bowsprit?