Living our Dream

What is your dream? Do you think you might never get there? Maybe your standard is too high. Maybe your plan for getting there is lame. Our goal was fairly attainable, and probably not what many would aspire to. In spite of that we set up our own obstacle course to getting here all by ourselves. More about those life challenges another time. But somehow we made it here anyway.

Our dream for some time has been to retire onto our boat. Not a houseboat or a float house (yes, those are two different things). It’s a boat we’ve had for about 10 years; it’s the end product of morphing one boat (the first one given to us) into another bigger, and eventually better one. (Or at least we think so). Kind of like that paper clip story. The guy who starts out with a paper clip and ends up having traded all the way up to a house in Saskatchewan. (Look him up, name is Kyle MacDonald). Although some might wonder if that was in the end a good deal. Just kidding Saskatchewanians. I’ve been in your province. Been asked by someone from there how I can stand to live in my province — don’t I feel closed in by trees and all? But you have good a good football team; and everyone was wearing green in honour of the upcoming game when I was there so I know it’s a big deal. And there is a lot of land. You can see for a long way. Not closed in at all. But I digress.

Our boat is 47’. It’s old (almost 100 years) and made of wood. In the boating world wooden boats are mostly avoided except by rich people who can pay someone to restore and maintain their boat for them, or poor people who…