I’m retiring in June. Me and my girlfriend are headed down the AR River on a sailboat, Caribbean bound. Going to live and cruise on the boat until it isn’t fun anymore. My middle daughter is graduating nursing school and will live at the house until she gets the 2 years experience necessary to start travel nursing. I’m sure I’ll be back eventually. I’m a hillbilly at heart.
Good for you ; hope you enjoy the time. No reason you can't tune in on occasion and keep us posted ; we do like pictures to see what people are up to.
Sounds like fun. Sometimes, especially in the Summer, I wish I still had a sailboat to find sandbars, ledges, rocks and wrecks in Buzzards Bay. I had a work associate that had a captains license and took catamarans around in the Caribbean for a couple years after his computer business dried up 2007/2008/2009.
Woo hoo that is great planning edit where you going in hurricanes season? Usually have to be above or below 40th parallel?? I am close to a big lake
Sounds great fox9988 Hopefully you won’t get rubbed the wrong way in this thread… but you might just end up getting that certain award… See ya when you get back, safe travels, oh and a pic or two might be nice to see- and you could win that certain award then too!
That would be one heck of a voyage from northwest Arkansas to Lake Champlain via the Arkansas River, Mississippi, Gulf of Mexico, skirting past the Florida keys, up the Atlantic coast, around Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, up the St. Lawrence, south to Lake Champlain…. But hey, if I was on a boat with an adventurous GF, my entire retirement a blank slate, I’d probably push the envelope just to see how far out I could go
Are the canals not deep enough for the keel? canal go from NY harbor to Champlain which flows North current wise( same as east coast Atlantic current) back out. St Lawrence .. if current moving 3 knots.. ya can still drift and make progress.. most go up to bays around DC and or Jersey which are generally not happy places for “hillbilly”s
This is something I could totally see my wife and I doing after I retire. Congratulations fox9988 !!!
Congratulations on retirement. That sounds like a great adventure. Have fun and be safe. Don't run into any pirates...or hurricanes...
First winter in the Caribbean then Nova Scotia area the following summer. After that, who knows...South Pacific possibly.
