One of the biggest misconceptions I come across from time to time, living this lifestyle of living on a boat whilst slowly making my way of sailing around the world, is the, “Oh you live on a yacht, you must be loaded…”, which in reality couldn’t be more further from the truth.

For most yes, that may be the case. You can do it what I call, the easy way, for example where people sell one of their houses or businesses, buy a nice boat, live off the rental income of their other houses and happy days, they get to enjoy the good life and not really have to worry about much, which is great, really.

Or they work their whole lives, retire at 65, buy a boat, and again happy days. But for some like me, being the person that I am, for some reason, I like to do things the hard way, or as I like to put it, the more challenging way haha 😂

For example, throwing caution to the wind (literally), giving up a successful career that you grew very tired and bored of, being suited up all day sat working behind a desk on investment banking trade floors and pretty much life as you knew it, buying an old boat, living on it, teaching yourself how to sail and embarking on a journey, more so a new life journey experience, of sailing around the world in an effort to live the most extraordinary life you could possibly live for yourself… And doing it as a build it and fund it as you go type experience, ultimately to see just how far you can get.

Whilst I probably don’t need to tell you about all the amazing dreamlike aspects of it all. It can be incredibly tough and challenging at times, with trying to live on and maintain a boat of your own, (trust me, the work never ends 🙈😂), finding ways to make an income to feed yourself and pay expenses, deal with the stresses etc of everyday living. As well as build a social media empire to share your stories and experiences, whilst also trying to build a business from the ground up to help fund things further into the future so that you can be on the side of enjoying it all that whole lot more. I’m not going to lie, it can be quite a tough gig, especially when you doing it all on your own.

But you’ll be amazed at how simple, basic and cheaply you can live when you really need to, you learn to understand and deal with the risks involved, the uncertainty, the stresses, the living hand to mouth etc, but always looking forward beyond the horizon, fighting to live that dream. I can tell you now, a few times last year I was down to my last 10 bucks, not knowing when or where more money was going to come from. But the great thing is when you really need to, you make a plan, you make it happen, you’ll be amazed at just how resourceful you become. Which has been a great help through this entire crisis.

Suddenly you’re learning a whole lot of new skills, where hands were once used for typing on a keyboard, are hands now skilled in carpentry, engine mechanics, electricians work, plumbing work, sewing sails etc. etc.

Hell, you even learn how to fibreglass, but you also very quickly learn how to fix just about anything that’s for sure. 😂

It certainly can take a lot of hard work, blood, sweat and tears when you do it in the way that I’m doing it, but whilst it can be an incredibly challenging experience at times, and trust me there have been many times where I’ve felt I couldn’t continue any further, or even get through to another day. Where I land up very seriously questioning my sanity or what the hell I’m trying to achieve, and like I said, doing this all on your own is a different kind of animal. But every day is a completely new fascinating experience, no day is ever the same. And I can tell you that, no matter how bad it gets, it certainly beats living in any mediocre comfort zone, or sitting behind a desk. Just monotonously going through trading and clearing system log files trying to find missing trades all day, whilst staring at a photo of a beautiful island surrounded by turquoise blue water that is your computer screen wallpaper, just wishing you were there…

One of the great perks of it all, as you can see from this pic from me working on my friend’s boat today sanding down and revarnishing the woodwork, is you get to do it all in the beautiful sunshine with no shirt, no tie…😂

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Photo: Marky Warren restoring woodwork on Sailing Yacht “Atlantis”, sanding down the grab rails.
Location: Yacht Port Cartagena, Spain.

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