to sell the house, buy a boat and fuck off into the sunset?

[AtYourCervix]

I'll maybe wait until DD2 is 18 and has left for prison university. DD1 will have left long before that for the convent.

AIBU to shop around for my yacht now?

I'm in. I love a bit of boat porn.

who is in?

When I was a child, each year we'd be dragged go to the Earl's Court boat show. It'd be a family outing so that my mother could stop my father whipping out his chequebook and "doing something stupid". One year they lost my sister there - to this day I'm not sure it was an accident.

oh I loved the Earls Court boat show.
my dad impulse-bought a few boats in his time.
(natty folding dinghies mainly, not massive yachts.)

DH used to have one of these - it's why I married him actually.

not really (in case he sees this) but it helped.

My friends' neighbour has been building a yacht in their back garden for 15 years. They expect to finish it this year and will have to demolish their garage and get the road closed to remove it.

How's that for a long-term escape plan?

I think I need to be on this thread...

Have wanderlust badly atm.

do it. do it. do it.

rah rah rah.

I have a boat. But it is very small. It's good for going out to sea and jumping from. Slightly harder to get back aboard.

My aunt did this at the age of about 75 yrs old. She sold all her stuff and bought a small boat with the intention of sailing it through the canals of europe to the Black Sea.

Irene, how fab. Did she do it?

my favourite story was the woman who was pissed off when her dad sailed to America without her in the 1930s and wouldn't take her because she was too young.
So in her 80s she bought the boat back and sailed it to America by herself.

(what was her name, was it Helen something?)

There's hope for us all

Helen Tew

oh look CaptainNancy, she was vice president of your trust!

Helen Tew, sethstarkaddersmackerel Here

My parents have sort of done this. They spend half the year on the boat, half at home. Spent 3 years in the Med, then Dad, bro and I took her over to the Caribbean last month. Mum isn't settling very well, though.

I am fancying a peter duck myself...

Ooh where in the Caribbean, notjustapotforsoup? I am in BVI.

I think they are in the Tobago Cays. They are a bit lax with updating.

I know a couple who did this for 10 years. Had a great time but kind of lost their minds due to all the pot they smoked. They are currently residing on a remote island off New Zealand on high ground so that they survive the end of the world in 2012. I kid you not.
They are lovely but batshit insane. Don't go there. It's a slippery slope.

Ps did the osteo help your back?? What's the verdict?

Yacht porn here

I have spent a couple of holidays in St Tropez drooling over the boats in the harbour and moored off Pampelonne beach.

though I like this one better

I'm in - 28 foot, 4 berth, proper toilet ... 1 berth spare if anyone wants it?

Whynot ??
You only live once !!

You're no-one til you have a big enough boat to squeeze in a helicopter landing pad though

If every MNer stuck in 10 quid, I bet we could buy one! "The MoonCup" perhaps.....launched by LeQueen....

i have a 22fter. more for pottering weekends than serious adventures but still a lot of fun. needs its bottom cleaning and other boring stuff at the moment. i'd like to do an ocean adventure sometime in the future. not in the 22fter though.

Like it that there's a little, secret sailing community on MN .

Anyone sailing in the British Virgin Islands, please look me up!