When one is working, it can limit the amount of hours put on a cruising boat. We spend far more
time on our PNW boat than we put
hours on it because we go up to it most weekends during the year and stay on it for one or both days even if we don't take it out.
While we take as many weekend trips into the islands as we can, my travel schedule, the weather, and other things have a habit of getting in the way. Right now we can only take one longer cruise a year, usually two or three weeks, assuming we haven't decided to do something else (like spend a month in France as was did last year or take a long narrowboat trip in the UK as we will do again in 2017.)
However.... when it comes to putting miles on our vehicles that's a different story. For us, me in particular, the journey is far more interesting than the destination be it in the boats, plane, or vehicles. In 2011 we got a new Subaru. Two years later it passed 60,000 miles almost all of it driven by my wife.
In 2013 we got a new truck. It has now got just shy of 50,000 miles on it. We spend as much time as we can, by boat, plane or vehicle, in British Columbia. BC is the main reason I left Hawaii way back when.
We hope to eventually be able to spend a lot more time going places on the water, both here and in Europe, than we are able to do today. In the meantime we try to stay "on the move" as much as we possibly can by any means that we can.
Except hiking. If God had meant man to go hiking He wouldn't have invented horses.
