Medic
Senior Member
Well, let me tell you a tough business to own in 2020 - student travel to Washington, DC. Airplanes, hotels, destinations - in a word - groups. Yuck. My wife and I have been in that business for 37 years, and we will be in it for many more years, but it has been tough.
We have almost $0 revenue for 2020 but need to support a staff of about 16 people. Enough about that. We are going to have to sell our NP49, after a whole 11 months of ownership.
Our plan is to likely retire to South Carolina. We will buy a home large enough for visitors and will plan on getting another boat in 2-3 years, something we will be able to keep within a few minutes of home. Still, something with probably two cabins so we can still voyage north in the summer with guests. We will be "downsizing" both our land home (from over 10,000 sq feet to maybe 3500) which will reduce our annual financial burden a lot, as well as our boat (maybe a Sabre or North Cove, or ??). And we will get out of northern Wisconsin's cold winters!
I seriously doubt that we are the only cruisers who were "blown out of the water" (pun intended) by COVID. Any others out there? Misery loves company, so I would love to hear from others. Even better is current misery that has a planned optomism as we have.
Such is life. God is good even if we can't see it at the moment.![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
We have almost $0 revenue for 2020 but need to support a staff of about 16 people. Enough about that. We are going to have to sell our NP49, after a whole 11 months of ownership.
Our plan is to likely retire to South Carolina. We will buy a home large enough for visitors and will plan on getting another boat in 2-3 years, something we will be able to keep within a few minutes of home. Still, something with probably two cabins so we can still voyage north in the summer with guests. We will be "downsizing" both our land home (from over 10,000 sq feet to maybe 3500) which will reduce our annual financial burden a lot, as well as our boat (maybe a Sabre or North Cove, or ??). And we will get out of northern Wisconsin's cold winters!
I seriously doubt that we are the only cruisers who were "blown out of the water" (pun intended) by COVID. Any others out there? Misery loves company, so I would love to hear from others. Even better is current misery that has a planned optomism as we have.
Such is life. God is good even if we can't see it at the moment.