West Coast Planning
There's probably few on here
that don't know about my love of the ocean,
and about boating.
Many use that boat to explore the great Loop, traveling for a year , to circle a huge part of America. Some, take the boat and spend a summer exploring the seas and shores of Alaska. So, that's my next boat. I need to spend a year or so learning to sleep aboard, to live aboard, navigate and explore.
After the Ranger Tug 27, my dream is to spend retirement, living aboard a Nordhavn. The one above, is the Nordhavn 475, with a watch berth in pilot house, a guest berth of three, and a master suite. The galley is like someone's home kitchen, there's 2 Heads w/ showers (bathrooms), a salon, a flybridge, and a boat deck and crane for a 14 ft (4.3m) Tender boat aboard.
The boat takes about 2 years to build, and the company is based in Dana Point California. Here's me float plan for the first few months when I take owner ship of her.
TESTS, with the Company Captain, and getting to know my boat
• Dana Point to Newport Beach, and back to Dana Point.
• Dana Point To Catalina Island
• Catalina Island to Long Beach
My First, on my own!
• Long Beach to Marina Del Rey
• Marina Del Rey to Santa Barbara 68 miles
• Santa Barbara, around Point Conception to San Luis Obismo 88 miles
• San Luis Obismo to Morro Bay 19 miles MY FIRST ANCHORAGE!
• Morrow Bay to Monterey Harbor 107 miles
• Monterey Harbor to San Franscisco 87 Miles
(inside San Fran to Sausalito Schoonmackers)
• Sausalito to Eureka (30 hours aboard) 216 Miles
• Eureka to Crescent City Woodley Island Marina 60 Miles
• Crescent City, around Cape Blanco Coos Bay OR (Charleston Marina 38 Miles)
• Coos Bay, to Yakima Bay Newport, OR 80 Miles
• Yakima Bay to Columbia River Astoria 115 miles
• Columbia River to Grays Harbor Westport Marina 57 miles
• Grays Harbor around Cape Flattery to Juan De Fuca Straits, past Tatoosh Island to Neah Bay Anchorage.
Later, in the Pacific Northwest, I plan to spend a fall season exploring around the Pacific Rainforest, and winter somewhere near Seattle or Washington:
• In Desolation Pass:
• Circumnavigate Fidalgo Island
• Vancouver Island and introduction to Canada.
All of this may seem crazy, talking about and planning for a trip some 4 years in the future. But, as most of you how know me realize, I am nothing if not a planner.
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to put more plants in than I take out
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BEER.You must be so excited about getting the Nordhavn :) Have they started building it yet???
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Wow...You are living your best life.
I can't wait to start seeing testimonies of how your plans are becoming your reality.
I wonder how you all get to have such Dreems. Haha. This is Huuuuge!
You excited? 😁
Does it show?
Maybe a little 😁
Now that's one hellva retirement plan, love it. I am a planner also, I enjoy it, gets me excited even if it's years away. Time flies, don't waste a minute of it.
that reply I made, about the ice hockey accident (on another comment of yours?) Since then, one mantra:
Do not waste a minute. Life's simply too short to sweat over the little things.
I thoroughly enjoyed hearing you speak about your boats on PYPT today Blue. It's clear you have a passion for boating and the ocean that really shines through in your voice 💖 SO amazing to see the little steps building towards the big dream accomplishment. 4 years...wow...It's getting closer... And that Nordhavn sounds like pure luxury...could it be as big as my house??? 🤯💙 !ALIVE
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47.5 feet long, 2 (or 3 cabins) 1 or 2 heads (baths), a galley (kitchen), plus lots more.
Many people when they retire actually do replace their house with a trawler style live-aboard Boat.
Yeah, I reckon that your boat and my house would probably sit alongside each other nicely in terms of size. Crazy, hey? Our house in SA, that's a different story but the one in England is a bit smaller lols.
yeah, sounds similar to me. The boat is smaller than the house, outside the city. I cannot wait to be rid of it... way too much for us at this point in our lives.
Yeah, hubby wants to be rid of his too. It's a wasting investment out there sadly too.
How magic! You definitely strike as the boating type. Getting out for a week or two at a time to cruise around seeing what's what sounds like a solid retirement plan.
Loving the planning! Making it happen already 😎
... or getting away for weeks or even a few months at a time?
Yeah, that's my goal...
... btw, the boat is capable of crossing the Pacific. A little short jaunt across the pond separating us should be nothing! And there are too many I need to see in England, Ireland, and Scotland.