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Old 02-04-2010, 03:34 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Brett,

Happy to know that you are living out my (all of our) Jimmy Buffett dream! If you need a first mate on your trip in September, let me know. I wouldn't mind taking a LOA to forget about life for a while.

PM me if you would like to meet up for coffee sometime.
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Old 02-05-2010, 07:36 AM   #22 (permalink)
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Good luck in your travels.

Sounds like you made a tough decision. I'm 42 also, but don't have the stones to make such a change in my routine...believe it or not, I still enjoy going to work. When the day comes that I dred what I'm doing, I hope I can step off into the unknown.

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Old 02-05-2010, 08:44 AM   #23 (permalink)
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My career goals are to retire early (age 45-50), buy a boat and sail the world. Hopefully I can find a woman that doesn't want children, and wants to see the world as well! You are a lucky man Brett. We are all waiting to see how your adventure unfolds! Be safe, and keep your keel in the water.
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Old 02-05-2010, 06:05 PM   #24 (permalink)
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Congrats to you my friend.... 22 years is a career....

Good Luck... fair winds and following seas!!!
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Old 02-06-2010, 02:17 AM   #25 (permalink)
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What an awesome and fascinating "second career".

Congratulations for taking the leap that many of us wish we had the courage to do.

I have bookmarked your blog and will be checking back with it. Thanks for committing to sharing your adventure with us.
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Old 02-07-2010, 07:57 PM   #26 (permalink)
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Way to go.

I spent two years working as crew on other peoples boats in the south west pacific.

If you need any information on this part of the world please feel free to contact me.

My dream is to do it all again, with my own boat.
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Old 02-09-2010, 01:24 PM   #27 (permalink)
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Way to go.

I spent two years working as crew on other peoples boats in the south west pacific.

If you need any information on this part of the world please feel free to contact me.

My dream is to do it all again, with my own boat.
Would love to talk sometime, I will PM you when back from my present trip!
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Old 02-09-2010, 04:10 PM   #28 (permalink)
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Well done tausap, good for you. You won't regret it one bit.
There will be tough times ahead when you will ask yourself "what the hell am I doing here" but those are few and far between.
Enjoy the Caribbean, great sailing there, lots of islands fairly close together.
You can always go back to flying if you feel you need to but this adventure will open doors to you.
Be safe, take lots of pictures, share them with all of us.
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Old 02-09-2010, 05:52 PM   #29 (permalink)
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Tausap--

Not sure when I go to ground school but would love to tag along. By the way I have previous sailing exp but not on that size you have or international.
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Old 02-10-2010, 09:49 AM   #30 (permalink)
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Tausap-

Got your pm but can't send pm's cause of the phone I'm using(puter is getting fixed). Just send your info in pm since emails work on phone.
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