There to Here - What's Next?

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There to Here - What's Next?

Making a major life decision doesn't happen overnight … at least for us it didn't. Some things were a certainty. Owning a business and working 60-70 hours a week was exhausting and couldn't go on forever. We didn't have enough savings or investments to retire and we still had kids in school who would soon be heading off to college. We hadn't made any definitive decisions. We wrestled constantly with what should come next. How do people change the course of their lives? What needs to happen?

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There to Here – The Pros & Cons of Chartering

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There to Here – The Pros & Cons of Chartering

Chartering was perfect for this period of our lives. There was no cleaning, maintenance or repairs to worry about. Something wrong? Just call the charter company to fix it … immediately … and it went on the owner's tab, not ours. We had the best of both worlds. Though we only chartered in the Carib and Florida because of our time constraints, there are bareboat chartering opportunities available worldwide … Asia, the Med, the South Pacific … you name it, if there's water and fine sailing, there's probably a way to charter a boat.

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