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Future Home is Loaded, bound for Palm Beach

This has been a long time coming. The journey, started as a refit for on my formal vessel, Farriage, over 2 years again ago. About one year ago, I started to entertain replacing Farraige, began the search for another boat and started the lobbying campaign for Sherine!

At this point, we are seriously excited about our next chapter and Sherine, as they say, is “on board”!

Another Reminder of Why I Need to do This

The last two years has been incredibly difficult for a lot of people. I recognize that as a whole, Sherine and I have been lucky. We have great jobs that have afforded as to work from home. Real Estate and our other investments have done well. Yes, we’ve been lucky and far too many people have had it a lot worse.

That said, Sherine has lost both of her parents to cancer in this time and as of Monday, my dad is now in the hospital again. Since watching the process several times now, I am amazed by just how robust life is yet, at the same time, how very fragile it is. So, while I’ve been told that my dad will be having an end-of-life discussion with his doctor, you can’t really be sure whether this is really the end this hospital visit or whether there’s a few more to go.

Anyways, all of this has reinforced in my mind the reason why I’m eagerly driving towards an early retirement to pursue my lifelong dream of cruising. My dad is 80. It’s hard not to think that he’s only a mere 28 years older than I am and that 28 years is NOT ENOUGH.

I would be a very large sum of money that what of my deathbed regrets will be not working a few more years…but I do know that if some unfortunate events come my way which would otherwise prevent me from getting to or enjoying this lifelong dream, I will have regrets.

Hearing of my dad’s prognosis caused me to think about giving notice immediately…why wait, I kept asking. However, as I continue to mature I have recognized the propensity of me slipping into this type of extreme of fatalist thinking in times of stress. So, I slept on it and most times, I regain clarity.

The timeline is the same. The plan hasn’t changed but I have even more resolve about the plan for ever. Back to work!

While One Splash Down

This morning I got an update from Performance Yacht that While One has been dropped in the water, eagerly awaiting to be loaded up on a freighter second week in November. It’s getting real.

The estimated load data in La Rochelle, France is 13-16th November …weather permitting and without guarantee. This puts the vessel stateside between November 26 and December 2!

Nautitech 46 Open Test Sail

Working with Alex of Performance Yacht, we eagerly awaited the delivery of a new Nautitech 46 Open. Alex was very accommodating and getting us onto the boat even though it had already been sold, days after it arrived.

Winds were in the low 10’s. Had a great sail out of Riviera Beach.

This was the first of several boats we had lined up to see that weekend including a Hylas 48, Anteres 44i and a few other catamarans. We hadn’t yet decided monohull versus catamaran. We had a bid in on a 2020 Hylas 49 and although we couldn’t see the 49, we were able to get on a 48. Hylast builds Beautiful, well-made boats. The new Hylas 57 was awe-inspiring…although a bit out of my price range.