ksanders
Moderator Emeritus
How do you use your large motor yacht or trawler?
Is this changing as you get older?
Because of its size and comfort a large boat is much more than a boat. It really is a second home.
Right now we use our 4788 Bayliner as a "get out of town" platform during our relativly short Alaskan boating season . We typically take off for 3-5 days at a time, go anchor off in some wel known and some new anchorages and go fishing. This get out of town or get away thought is tempered by the fact that we live right on a lake where people get out of town to. I have a dock in my front yard and all that goes along with that. We cruise the lake every single day we're home. If we lived in town, in a subdivision, things would be much different.
We didn't buy the boat to do that though. We bought the boat as a mobile condo to use as a base camp to go exploring. It was kinda a fuzzy dream when we bought the boat, this idea of cruising. I think we'll like it, but honestly I cant be sure until we give it a try. The wife is not as sure as I am. She predicts we'lll try it, and end up bringing the boat back to Alaska, and spending winters in Hawaii, or the gulf Coast. Possibly buying a second home somewhere affordable.
In December we are taking off for a couple of weeks and exploring the California coast by car. An old fashioned road trip. No real schedule, just go where it sounds interesting. The goal of this trip, (besides getting away from the snow and ice), is to see if our idea of extended cruising along that coast is viable to us. We're going to look ant the towns, and the harbors, and try to picture ourselves spending the winters harbor hopping from say Santa Cruz to San Diego. We might go through the Delta area as well.
This trip is a big deal regarding our future plans. If we look things over and think, nice but I don't feel the need to come back, then our plans will shift. If we are driven to return and explore then we'll get serious about making this happen.
So what do you do with your large boat? Is what you are doing now the end game for your boating, or is there more on the horizon?
Is this changing as you get older?
Because of its size and comfort a large boat is much more than a boat. It really is a second home.
Right now we use our 4788 Bayliner as a "get out of town" platform during our relativly short Alaskan boating season . We typically take off for 3-5 days at a time, go anchor off in some wel known and some new anchorages and go fishing. This get out of town or get away thought is tempered by the fact that we live right on a lake where people get out of town to. I have a dock in my front yard and all that goes along with that. We cruise the lake every single day we're home. If we lived in town, in a subdivision, things would be much different.
We didn't buy the boat to do that though. We bought the boat as a mobile condo to use as a base camp to go exploring. It was kinda a fuzzy dream when we bought the boat, this idea of cruising. I think we'll like it, but honestly I cant be sure until we give it a try. The wife is not as sure as I am. She predicts we'lll try it, and end up bringing the boat back to Alaska, and spending winters in Hawaii, or the gulf Coast. Possibly buying a second home somewhere affordable.
In December we are taking off for a couple of weeks and exploring the California coast by car. An old fashioned road trip. No real schedule, just go where it sounds interesting. The goal of this trip, (besides getting away from the snow and ice), is to see if our idea of extended cruising along that coast is viable to us. We're going to look ant the towns, and the harbors, and try to picture ourselves spending the winters harbor hopping from say Santa Cruz to San Diego. We might go through the Delta area as well.
This trip is a big deal regarding our future plans. If we look things over and think, nice but I don't feel the need to come back, then our plans will shift. If we are driven to return and explore then we'll get serious about making this happen.
So what do you do with your large boat? Is what you are doing now the end game for your boating, or is there more on the horizon?