$30k per year - sail the world

Mad Mike said:
I like being on the water, particularly the sea. I've had plenty of costal adventures, crossed an ocean on a ship, but never on a small craft. One of the few things left on my relatively pedestrian bucket list.

I'm lucky to have never been seasick, I think all my puking at sea has been thanks to my travelling companion, Mr. Bacardi.
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I've never been on a cruise ship. On a fishing boat off the east coast of Africa about four hours into the outbound journey , I felt very unwell. Cant remember if I puked. My dad caught (and released) a black marlin, that's all that matters about that trip.
 
I don't know if this is the same thing, but a friend was telling me that a lot of cruise operators cancelled their ship orders, and other company(ies?) were buying them and selling the cabins as condos.
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I can beleive that. Maintenance on those ships is pretty brutal but then so are shelter prices. Lot third world labour and choice of where to outfit for supplies...quite a logistics exercise.

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Black Marlin off the East Coast of Africa :oops: ....is Hemingway your godfather?
 
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I pretty much grew up on the ocean, offshore fishing on draggers, offshore oil rigs.

Yep i qualify as a saltwater boy.

What gets me is they’re tracking great whites in some of the waters i swam in as a kid
 
MacDoc said:
I can beleive that. Maintenance on those ships is pretty brutal but then so are shelter prices. Lot third world labour and choice of where to outfit for supplies...quite a logistics exercise.

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Black Marlin off the East Coast of Africa :oops: ....is Hemingway your godfather?
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Boat left from Hemingways Watamu. A bucket list checkmark for him. A fun adventure for me but meh. I had been fighting a tuna for 30 minutes before he hooked the marlin. Captain gave it the beans to get the marlin on and emptied my reel. It took a long time to get the tuna in.
 
Bet yours tasted better .....or was hook and release?
We had rather amusing locals taking us out to a snorkeling spot in the Carribean and they had 4 fishing rods with exactly 4 pieces of bait out the back for the 1/2 hour ride....clearly not expecting much nor were we.
Damn if all four poles didn't go down with fish on and we managed to land one lovely mahi mahi in the 30 lb range which made a great addition to the nightly all-in buffet.
The look on the crews faces when the fish hit all four poles at once was worth the trip. It is a very tasty fish.
 
MacDoc said:
Bet yours tasted better .....or was hook and release?
We had rather amusing locals taking us out to a snorkeling spot in the Carribean and they had 4 fishing rods with exactly 4 pieces of bait out the back for the 1/2 hour ride....clearly not expecting much nor were we.
Damn if all four poles didn't go down with fish on and we managed to land one lovely mahi mahi in the 30 lb range which made a great addition to the nightly all-in buffet.
The look on the crews faces when the fish hit all four poles at once was worth the trip. It is a very tasty fish.
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Mahi mahi, Tuna and everything else got sold on the dock. Prices were shockingly low compared to market price here (obviously lots of transportation and middlemen between there and here).
 
We caught a small swordfish off a small boat near BoraBora , put him/her back , we had caught about 100lbs of yellow fish tuna . Tuna sushimi, ceviche, tuna steaks , tuna surprise. By day 5 I really wanted to hook a chicken .


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crankcall said:
We caught a small swordfish off a small boat near BoraBora , put him/her back , we had caught about 100lbs of yellow fish tuna . Tuna sushimi, ceviche, tuna steaks , tuna surprise. By day 5 I really wanted to hook a chicken .


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Iirc correctly we were using a 30+ lb tuna as bait for the marlin. When the captain was chasing bigger Marlins he would use bait over 100 lbs. Crazy.
 
That is nuts , we were trolling a 16” long pink/ green and chrome jig thing and pretty much caught the swordfish by accident. We would see seabird flying in low circles which is an indication the Tuna and swirling and driving baitfish to the surface , you sail through the middle and bang , a fish . Then comes getting all the sails dropped to slow the boat while somebody takes a turn fighting a fish . It was an amazing time . I didn’t have a lot of saltwater fishing experience, so i was pretty happy


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For the well heeled ...it has been done before.

This Residential Cruise Ship Has Been Sailing Around The World For The Last 20 Years — But Good Luck Buying One Of Its Up To $15 Million Condos​

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This Residential Cruise Ship Has Been Sailing Around The World For The Last 20 Years — But Good Luck Buying One Of Its Up To $15 Million Condos

The World is a residential cruise ship that has been sailing around the world for the last 20 years. About 10 to 12 of its condos go on sale annually, and cost between $2 million and $15 million.
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This Residential Cruise Ship Has Been Sailing Around The World For The Last 20 Years — But Good Luck Buying One Of Its Up To $15 Million Condos | Digg

The World is a residential cruise ship that has been sailing around the world for the last 20 years. About 10 to 12 of its condos go on sale annually, and cost between $2 million and $15 million.
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Had dinner with a guy that “lived” on the cruise ship that went from SanDiego to porto viarta weekly , he was in the US every week , close to actual health care when required and met new people every night for dinner , Harry was mid 80s , alone and sold a machine shop in Seattle . This was his retirement.


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Brings this to mind..."goin' where the weather suits my clothes"

starting towards Water World.
Go up with the sea level rise and pickover the sunken cities ;)

Think I might prefer to transit the Gulf Stream rather than the cold west coast current.
Came around a corner on Vancouver Island SW coast and temps dropped 10c+ instantly. 🥶
 
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"Now, Life at Sea is promising customers repayment for the minimum US$115,500-per-person package, saying that monthly refund instalments would begin mid-December. It has also offered to pay accommodation until Dec. 1 and flights for those who had already made their way to the departure destination in Istanbul ahead of time."

It's never good when a soon to be dead company has your money, especially when they're telling you not to panic and they're going to pay it back real soon
 
TwistedKestrel said:
It's never good when a soon to be dead company has your money, especially when they're telling you not to panic and they're going to pay it back real soon
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And in monthly installments. Whatever is available for distribution shpuld probably be sitting there. My guess is a few months in, the payments will be finished and you take the rest on the chin. Credit card charge back isn't going to save you from 100K USD loss.
 
The first clue should’ve been ‚we don’t have the ship we promised’.

But people are sold a dream and there won’t be real consequences for the (edit - not buyers) sellers. Hope they had cancellation insurance as they’re not seeing those refunds in full.

Monthly repayments…ha..
 
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mimico_polak said:
The first clue should’ve been ‚we don’t have the ship we promised’.

But people are sold a dream and there won’t be real consequences for the (edit - not buyers) sellers. Hope they had cancellation insurance as they’re not seeing those refunds in full.

Monthly repayments…ha..
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Glossy brochures and glossier promises are cheap. I wonder if they get a copy of their investment being beached at a breaking yard in India.
 
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