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Post by dogless on Oct 8, 2023 8:11:01 GMT
We've owned our boat for 19 years, and did share boats and hire boats for about 20 years previous to that.
We have done the usual foreign holidays, but since owning Paneke we've happily spent most of each year afloat and loved it and continue to do so.
However our recent insurance survey experience has obliged us to seriously consider future plans.
We've sort of decided that we'll enjoy our next three or four years afloat and then consider selling and doing other things whilst we're still able to.
Of course licence fee increases may mean the bottom falls out of the boat market, or indeed that boating becomes prohibitively expensive ... we shall see.
I wondered if you've any long term plans, whether it be leaving the boat only in a box, upgrading, or moving to land ?
Rog
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Post by β on Oct 8, 2023 8:28:10 GMT
My long term plan involves going out on my launch and acquiring some beer then cruising around a nice part of the Thames drinking it. This is going to happen in about half an hour. Very long term.
What wasn't in the long term plan was dropping the speed controller for the electric canoe in the River and not getting it back. No magnetic parts. New controller ordered from the States.
So it is the petrol launch today which is always ok as it has good range potential and I need to investigate something.
In other long term plans there are no plans.
Oh I do have a funeral to attend on the 3rd of November. My aunt Ann. She was cool.
Other than that no idea whatsoever what might happen in future.
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Post by dogless on Oct 8, 2023 8:42:53 GMT
Of course I accept the truth of what you say about the future ... none of us know.
But it's still possible to muse on likely or probable futures.
Rog
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Post by brummieboy on Oct 8, 2023 10:56:18 GMT
Of course I accept the truth of what you say about the future ... none of us know. But it's still possible to muse on likely or probable futures. Rog At my time of life, the future is a lot closer than for some others. This year has seen us use the boat a bit less for one reason or another, but will still look forward to next year's potential. Whilst the boat is an asset, we don't consider it 'owes' us anything after 35 years, so reduced use is not seen as a negative. It will have a value when we do sell it, but whatever that is will be a bonus, plus the saving of moorings and licence.
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Post by β on Oct 8, 2023 11:04:32 GMT
My likely or probable future long term is getting off the boats.
I have been falling occasionally. This morning I tripped on a rope and amazingly my hand slid along a solar panel and managed to grab a handrail. Without that I would have fallen onto the launch and probably then into the River.
No beer and no hangover.
Maybe the lack of beer is what did it.
More beer.
But yes premature ageing is interesting.
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Post by β on Oct 8, 2023 11:06:44 GMT
This geyser decided to have his funeral early.
46.
Great job, great family things can't possibly get better. So bye !
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Post by Telemachus on Oct 8, 2023 21:58:59 GMT
I am quite happy with my life as it is, very full with gliding, boating and electronics/software, and my husband of course. I donβt plan to change until I am unable to do these things, I imagine I might lose gliding first as one needs to be reasonably fit to rig the thing, have adequate eyesight etc. I suspect boating would become a fail later. Physically, electronics/software has to get fairly bad before I canβt do it, but of course brain-dulling dementia is always a possibility. I hope I inherited my motherβs genes, she is now 100and not suffering from dementia, just old age,
I donβt think we can predict how things will turn out, the important think is to make the most of what time you have remaining.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Oct 9, 2023 4:43:06 GMT
However our recent insurance survey experience has obliged us to seriously consider future plans. We've sort of decided that we'll enjoy our next three or four years afloat and then consider selling and doing other things whilst we're still able to. I'd suggest that you sell it in three years time, when your next Boat Safety Certificate is due.
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Post by dogless on Oct 9, 2023 8:30:48 GMT
Twat. During our recent 'review period' we were told of a couple we vaguely know, who live afloat, and now he has been diagnosed with alzheimers. It's a tough issue to live with in a house, let alone a boat ... and they have no where else to go. They have our sympathies and I'm sure thoughts of their situation coloured our thinking. I suppose I don't want to feel trapped in a situation by failing health or limited physical ability. I agree with brummieboy in that we bought our boat to use, not as an investment ... and wouldn't need to make a certain amount on any sale, just move it on quickly when we think the time has come. But equally I would hate to see it turn into one of those 'Mary Celeste' type boats you see, green with moss and slowly sinking through neglect because it's easier to do nothing but pay the mooring, than arrange a sale. I suppose we're considering likely outcomes and possibilities, rather than making plans. Time will tell what actually happens but I do know nothing stays the same just because you want it to. Rog
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Post by Mr Stabby on Oct 9, 2023 9:12:37 GMT
Yes I imagine boat life would be difficult living with Alzheimers, especially as I understand sufferers often start to become confused about thngs like dates.
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Post by dogless on Oct 9, 2023 9:22:13 GMT
The gift that keeps on giving.
You will tire of this eventually won't you ... please π
Rog
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Post by Mr Stabby on Oct 9, 2023 17:30:06 GMT
I don't make long term plans. "Mann tracht, un Gott lachtβ and all that. I imagine I'll be living on the boat until it turns up on Whilton Marina brokerage smelling faintly of dead person and Febreze. If I can keep passing the HGV medical I'll just keep going as I am for the foreseeable future, a roughly 50/25/25 mix of working, cruising and dossing around on the mooring. Just with an extra Β£900 a month to spend on motorcycles and getting my BSS done a year early, as I believe pensioners are wont to do.
When my Mum passes on to a better place she'll leave some money and my share of it might just be enough to buy a terraced house in the shittiest part of Bedworth or Binley but I just wouldn't be interested. I'll give most of it to the kids for house deposits, once the house price crash is out of the way.
If I ever won the EuroMillons I might think about buying a seven-bedroom detached house with five acres of land deep in the Shropshire countryside with a big heated garage to house my collection of Rolls-Royce motor cars but as the chances of that happening are quite small I'm resigned to just muddling on as I am.
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Post by β on Oct 9, 2023 18:31:24 GMT
I am going to sail around the world on a sloop three times. First time will be the obvious way the other two will be more adventurous.
Big gun for the pirates.
After this I am going to do a YTS pirate training and get younger.
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Post by Aloysius on Oct 9, 2023 18:38:57 GMT
Tell us about the other two.
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Post by Andyberg on Oct 9, 2023 20:16:28 GMT
Wake up tomorrow morning and continue to do so for the foreseeable future are my only future plans.π
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