Paying buddy boat to do repairs

[mark lennoc]

Great advice Raymond. Hope you get that next 10 years out of it all!

[cohort]

Sailors going in the same direction tend to run into each other regularly in anchorages along the way, so pretty early into the trip you will build friendships with like minded people. Additionally, many spots you will visit/ stop over have boaters that are either transiting or even living in the area and the local "coconut telegraph" will point you in the direction of competent, honest tradesmen to assist with projects and repairs.

[skipgundlach]

Originally Posted by Happ

Not just in Florida! I made that mistake due to an elderly Mother. It was 6 years before I was needed.

Not my mother, and not my grandchildren.

But it effectively destroyed the last 9 years of - effectively "not" - cruising.

Go now.

Had we been actively cruising in that period, the other person on the boat likely would not have lost her nerve, and would still have been able to fly in for grandkid visits as was done in the first several years.

Boat - my only home for 15 years - is as good as sold now, and I fear my cruising days - despite the putative new owner being anxious to have us cruise with him - are over.

[AndyOz]

Originally Posted by karkauai

Thanks. ttex,
Like what? Share all the tales of things I've done poorly over the years? That'd be an education, I guess. Wine. Rum. Beer? Dinner out twice a week? Give me some other bartering ideas

Stories of dubious provenance?