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Wife is *almost* on board

My wife and I have had a few chats this week about my dreams and it looks like it’s boiling down to…

…if I can show how it’s going to work financially, she’s willing to take the leap and see how being liveaboards will work.

Woohoo! =:)

That’s a big change from the “I don’t want to talk about it” vibe I’d been getting for the last couple months, so I’m pretty happy.

Okay, I still have to ramp my business up to the point where we can buy a boat that’s big enough, but I’m pretty close to being set with our monthly needs as far as being able to work on it every few days from a wi-fi connection. I just need to come up with a way to generate $100K in one chunk to buy a (used) boat (we’re not ever going to buy a home on time again).

That’s for a monohull. We really want to catamaran so if I can get a $200K windfall we’ll go for that. So that’s what I’m working on right now.

I’m also lining up some ASA courses for my wife and I and son to take this summer — so far the leading candidate is a place in San Diego where you live aboard a sailboat for a week while you take the classes.

My hope is that by this time next year we’ll be living aboard, or at least shopping for our home — in a much warmer climate than here in Alaska. It’s been below zero for the last few days and I’ve been OD’ing on pictures of the Caribbean. =;)

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