Recently got a mortgage on a house 144km from Sydney where i run a business and work. Client base is spread all over in sydney and nearby where i live. where i live now is absolute paradise. This summer season ive harvested about 20kg of tomatoes, same with potatoes, about 10kg Zuchini, lotsa corn, lettuces, beetroot, radishes plus much more. Have established apple, peach, plum, apricot, feijoa, lemons, nectarines and pears and drink really nice southern highland rainwater filtered from the tank. Its been a dream of mine to live like this forever, but one thing is suffering. My sailing. Im going less and havent been in nearly 2 weeks. Id normally be out everyday. Another thing thats getting hard is tolerating Sydney when i go there. THe less time i spend there, the more i loathe the place when i go there.
So i was home the other day and a revelation hit me. I can go long term cruising on my tophat after about 12k of additions and about a year or even less of prep/work on boat. Rent the house out on an interest only loan leaving a bit of cash left over for the house kitty and just go.
This has now taken over my life and ive already started to prep. The intended route would be Syd to NZ, maybe via lord howe for a look. In nz id like to anchor at Taipa(top of north island) where ive got a beach house to use, then bay of islands, GReat barrier island, Kawau island, other islands around auckland, then over to Coromandel, right around to Mount Manganui and to east cape where ive got friends.
After this head north east to tahiti. Still not sure which islands i want to visit. Def the cooks. Need to do alot of prep beforehand and need to learn about weather systems and prevailing winds etc so not too much sailing on the nose. I think my boat can do this, and they have proved theyre a robust vessel that the ability to circumnavigate and handle some surprises.
I just feel like life is too short to not do this and this has been a dream for a really long time - even before i started sailing. Sailing is really important to me and every time i go, i get sad when the day is over. In the last year ive had a heart attack and some organ failure and if times short, i dont want to waste it working. I find when you make a decision thats "right for you" things fall into place to help that happen. This has already been happening so i feel it is the right path. Pretty lucky really to be able to make such a choice. Im sure many would love to, but life can get in the way of such dreams making it hard to make something like this happen.