Coach Kip to Embark on Journey

Oct 21 2007

Coach Kip to Embark on Journey

Published by Coach Kip at 6:43 pm under Vagabonding

A couple of weeks ago I wrote that my wife and I where thinking of buying a boat and living on it.

Well we have decided what we are going to do. Coach Kip and his wife have decided to take a year long trip living solely on a boat. We are going to sell our townhouse, our cars, and most everything else that we don’t need and buy a Trawler.

A trawler is a boat that is similar to a house boat but made for traveling in larger open water. A trawler usually has at least one stateroom a kitchen or galley, and a living area. We are looking for a boat that is in the 45-65 foot range (yes we do know that is a large range in boat speak), and a cost of about $65,000 to $85,000.

It does seem very inexpensive for a boat that size but looking on different boat selling sites such as boats.com and boattraderonline.com it is certainly possible to get a boat in that size and that price range. That is very exciting for us.

Now there are just two questions that remain. When do we leave and how do we make enough money to do this?

I think that the most popular question we are going to get is “how do you have enough money to take a year off and sail a boat around?” Well you don’t have to have enough money saved up to sail for an entire year. You just need to make enough money while living on the boat to sustain your life on it. In other words you have to have to make enough money in a way that is location independent to be able to live on a boat.

How is this done? Well the first thing that we have found is that you have to get your mind right. You have to begin to think the right thoughts.

You have to be able to visualize, and be able to see yourself doing what it is that you want to do.
You have to be able to believe in what you want.
You have to know exactly what it is that you are going to get, and know with all your heart, your body and your soul that you are going to get it.

We will live on a boat beginning next summer and we will travel freely to where ever we want.