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Guy quits job, buys sailboat, sails to Chile

That guy's awesome. I wish I did more when I was younger. My big semi-serious plan was to kayak to Ireland. More approachable was running Great Falls of the Potomac in my canoe. I did neither :^(
 
I'm guessing he had sail boat experience before doing this. No way can a novice so something like this
 
Wow. This guy must have had a lot of stuff to fund paying off his private university engineering degree, buy a sail boat, fund a 2 year trip, have his family & friends come visit him(actually i bet they all sold their dvd collections too) in South America, booze and ski resort, and so on and so on. At lease we get to look at all his vacation pictures!
 
styrafoam said:
Wow. This guy must have had a lot of stuff to fund paying off his private university engineering degree, buy a sail boat, fund a 2 year trip, have his family & friends come visit him(actually i bet they all sold their dvd collections too) in South America, booze and ski resort, and so on and so on. At lease we get to look at all his vacation pictures!
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with scholarships, frugal living, and a decent paying job after school, that's all within possibility.
 
TwiceOver said:
Surprised Dave Grohl would give up music. :awe:
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lol. I don't think Grohl could pull off the beard.

also, lol at this comment:

mime999 via Android31 points : 1 reply : 7 hours ago reply
Meanwhile, I turn 26 soon and my burp tastes like fries.

😀
 
Would be awesome to do something like this, but when I think of the lost income and compound interest over 30 years on the portion that was socked away, it just doesn't seem like a good idea. I'd rather not work till I'm 80.
 
I never had any desire to travel. If I want to see more of the world I just watch the travel channel. If that's not enough I click on something called Google Earth. Thanks to that I got to see how shitty so many parts of Italy is.
 
I'd like to point out that this isn't a very "easy" thing to do. Sailing a 30ft boat through those waters, mostly alone, is much more difficult and dangerous than hiking the AT,etc. While the wind is free, one gives up creature comforts to live on a small boat like that. So make no mistake, but the urge to really get the hell away from everyone must be the drive.
 
singlehanding is complete diiscipline. Nobody is going to watch the helm for you, and all it takes is a decent sized tree of worse, a semi-submerged container to end your trip. This is far more of a problem sailing through the night and on autopilot.
 
styrafoam said:
Wow. This guy must have had a lot of stuff to fund paying off his private university engineering degree, buy a sail boat, fund a 2 year trip, have his family & friends come visit him(actually i bet they all sold their dvd collections too) in South America, booze and ski resort, and so on and so on. At lease we get to look at all his vacation pictures!
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From reading through the comments, it sounds like he started a skiing manufacturing company before, then bought the boat (he said about twice the price of a used car). He said it costs him about $15k a year to live on the boat.
 
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Kaido said:
From reading through the comments, it sounds like he started a skiing manufacturing company before, then bought the bought (he said about twice the price of a used car). He said it costs him about $15k a year to live on the boat.
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Travel is a lot cheaper than people generally think it is -- when you remove international flights and $300/night resorts from the menu.
 
jlee said:
Travel is a lot cheaper than people generally think it is -- when you remove international flights and $300/night resorts from the menu.
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Which is why you need to be single when you travel. Plus it's whole more fun to travel solo.
 
jlee said:
Travel is a lot cheaper than people generally think it is -- when you remove international flights and $300/night resorts from the menu.
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But it's still not cheap, you're most likely not going to be bringing food back to the hotel room to cook every night.
 
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