we need to learn how to sail first, right? Well, I know there are those who don’t think so (Bumfuzzle comes to mind), but it can’t be a bad a idea. My brother and I owned a hunting/red neck truck that we decided to sacrifice in the name of sailing. We sold the truck and bought a MacGregor 25.
I later learned that this MacGregor was one of the last 25 models built. We drove up to Chicago and bought her after searching around on the internet for a while. Unfortunately, the ride home didn’t go so well… We tore the starboard rigging cable by dragging it on the road for over a hundred miles. My brother and I were able to replace the cable along with the plastic spreader tips and she should be good to sail come spring. Who’s idea was it to make a part of the rigging plastic? They should be fired. Needless to say, we bought steel spreader tips that should last more than 5 minutes (hopefully!).
So if we are going to sail around the world…
We are normal (well ok, not so normal) people that have a dream to see the world and live life as it was meant to be. We both have successful careers in the healthcare industry, even in this terrible economy. We want to break free of the current cycle of trading time for dollars and dollars for more and more things we don't need. So, we have decided to forego the fruits of our economic success and "retire" well before we are 30 and set out to see what is over the Horizon.