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12-03-2013, 12:01 PM
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Senior Member
City: Interior Texas
Vessel Name: Ray Sea Lady
Vessel Model: Sea Ray AC
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 161
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Hello to TF / Another lurker converted to member
Hello there.... A newbie that's been lurking on the site for some time (lake boating and trawler dreaming). This site is full of wonderful people with terrific experiences and shiploads of knowledge. Approaching retirement eligibility next year and figure its time to get serious about my life-long dream of owning and living aboard a trawler.
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12-03-2013, 12:29 PM
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Senior Member
City: Palmetto Bay
Vessel Name: Sunshine
Vessel Model: Island Pilot DSe 12m Hybrid
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 268
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You've come to the right spot. Many experts here along with lifetimes of experience.
What you won't find? Consensus!
You'll be wading through the weeds of contrary information - much of it mutually exclusive.
At the end of the day it'll still be up to you to fall in love with a boat (required if you're planning an LTR) and jump in with both feet.
WELCOME!
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Reuben Trane
"Sunshine" - Island Pilot DSe 12m
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12-03-2013, 12:34 PM
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Guru
City: Hotel, CA
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 8,323
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rjtrane
What you won't find? Consensus!
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Now what fun would that be?
There's 3 ways to do something. The right way, the wrong way, and my way 
Welcome to the forum
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Craig
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they've been fooled - Mark Twain
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12-03-2013, 12:43 PM
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Senior Member
City: Interior Texas
Vessel Name: Ray Sea Lady
Vessel Model: Sea Ray AC
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 161
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LOL! I've spent a career in federal civil service. If there's one thing I've learned it's there's always three ways of doing something 
Looking forward to the dialogue...
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12-03-2013, 02:20 PM
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Member
City: Myrtle Beach
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 23
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Welcome aboard!
I also retired from Fed service, trying to keep it on the low down
Brad n Michelle....................Boat to be named later!
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12-03-2013, 02:55 PM
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Enigma
City: Slicker?
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 16,240
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Greetings,
Welcome aboard.
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RTF
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12-03-2013, 03:07 PM
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Guru
City: Pensacola
Join Date: May 2012
Posts: 748
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Howdy.
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12-03-2013, 03:31 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
City: St. Marks, Florida
Vessel Name: Morgan
Vessel Model: Gulfstar 36
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 3,673
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Welcome to the Forum. Good to have you, and hope to hear more from you as time goes by and you get closer to the realization of that dream that all of us (well, most of us anyway, or perhaps just some of us) have had. :-)
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12-03-2013, 04:47 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
City: Chicago, IL
Vessel Name: Bay Pelican
Vessel Model: Krogen 42
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 2,993
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Welcome aboard. Enjoy your search for the right boat for you. But search within yourself for what you may want to do with the boat.
Marty
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12-03-2013, 04:52 PM
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Guru
City: South FL
Vessel Name: Oliver
Vessel Model: Nordhavn 47 Hull# 12
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 3,607
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Welcome aboard!
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Thanks, Oliver
M/V Oliver
Nordhavn 47 Hull #12
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12-03-2013, 08:23 PM
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Guru
City: Longboat Key, FL
Vessel Name: Bucky
Vessel Model: Krogen Manatee 36 North Sea
Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 5,195
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Welcome aboard and ask away. Read between our egos for important information.
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Larry
"When life gets hard, eat marshmallows”.
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12-04-2013, 04:55 AM
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TF Site Team
City: Ex-Brisbane, (Australia), now Bribie Island, Qld
Vessel Name: Now boatless - sold 6/2018
Vessel Model: Had a Clipper (CHB) 34
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 10,026
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Quote:
Originally Posted by healhustler
Welcome aboard and ask away. Read between our egos for important information.
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Ha ha…I like that. Spot on Heal….oh and yeah, welcome about the board OP'er…sorry laughed so much at the above I forgot your handle, and it's off screen…but you know who you are…
(OP stands for original poster, 'case you didn't know).
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12-04-2013, 02:05 PM
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TF Site Team
City: California Delta
Vessel Name: FlyWright
Vessel Model: 1977 Marshall Californian 34 LRC
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 13,719
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texasnielson, Welcome aboard! Sounds like we have a few Feds aboard! What federal service do you work for? CSRS or FERS?
I retired a year ago from the FAA. It was a great career experience that I wouldn't trade for anything, but now the retirement life is even better!
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12-04-2013, 02:12 PM
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Senior Member
City: Interior Texas
Vessel Name: Ray Sea Lady
Vessel Model: Sea Ray AC
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 161
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I am also FAA. Hired in back in 1980 @ ZAN. Am CSRS and can't wait to invoke rule #1 - collect my retirement (healthy) for longer than it took to earn it!
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12-04-2013, 03:16 PM
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Guru
City: Joe Wheeler State Park, Al
Vessel Name: Serenity
Vessel Model: Mainship 36 Dual Cabin -1986
Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 1,251
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Welcome Aboard
from a live-aboard in Kemah, Tx.
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Cruising the Eastern U.S. Inland Waterways and Gulf Coast. Presently on the ICW in Louisiana and heading Back to Texas.
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12-04-2013, 09:35 PM
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Guru
City: UMR MM283
Vessel Name: Northern Lights II
Vessel Model: Bayliner 3870
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 1,357
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Welcome from the upper Mississippi where it's about time to winterize & go home till mid March
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Ron on Northern Lights II
I don't like making plans for the day because the word "premeditated" gets thrown around in the courtroom.
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12-05-2013, 07:04 PM
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Senior Member
City: Interior Texas
Vessel Name: Ray Sea Lady
Vessel Model: Sea Ray AC
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 161
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Thanks to all of the welcomes... Always feel a little sorry for the folk who have put up for the winter. It may be cold here (TX) right now, but in a week I look forward to going back out to the boat for some R&R regardless of the temps...
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12-05-2013, 07:45 PM
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Member
City: Myrtle Beach
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 23
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Howdy TEX!
Were you on the AF side, or Controller side? I did 9 Navy and 23 FAA between ZDC and ZJX and retired 2 months after I was eligible Getting ready to pull the trigger and move aboard full time! Keep us posted........ 
Brad n Michelle.......................................... ....................
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12-05-2013, 08:26 PM
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Senior Member
City: Interior Texas
Vessel Name: Ray Sea Lady
Vessel Model: Sea Ray AC
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 161
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Started as an ATCS... Ended up working in the old AF, Airports among the at least dozen unique jobs I've had. Eligible next October but the big "D" has put a kink in the original plan so now it's three or so years out (kept my retirement in tack though!). Anyway, never too early to start planning so here I am on the Forum....
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12-06-2013, 06:53 AM
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Member
City: Myrtle Beach
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 23
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LOL! I had 2 of the big "Ds" and just got married for the third time. 33 years all Air Traffic never took a management job Although if I had gotten into management I could probably afford a bigger yacht 
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