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Flotsam & Jetsam

The Endless Vacation

Posted by on 06/23 at 07:50 PM
My husband, Barry, and I enjoy independent and isolated nomadic living. So we really thought we had it made 11 years ago when we bought a 40-foot ketch and began island hopping up and down the West Indies. Eight years later, however, we'd both had had our fill. The ketch was a constant expense and every safe anchorage for a boat of that size, we'd found, was too populated by curious natives and/or other ships and yachts for our tastes. "There must be a better way," we told ourselves. "There must be a way for us to enjoy an endless round of sailing, swimming, fishing, shelling, contact with wildlife, and -- most important of all -- solitude and privacy. And there must be a way for us to do all this on little more than pennies a day."

A classic article from the Jan/Feb 1977 Mother Earth News.

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  • OK, I’ll bite. The openning para is certainly a teaser. But the link is a fizzer - damn!

    Posted by  on  07/15  at  06:30 AM

  • Hey! I think they changed it on me. Try this: The Endless Vacation.

    Posted by  on  07/15  at  12:17 PM

  • Thanks Michael. What a great article! Made me think of that double enclosed canoe catamaran you designed for a similar journey/life. (didn’t someone once say “Life is a journey”?!

    Posted by  on  07/15  at  07:08 PM

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