Oh no exactly the same happened to me When I sold my XO , Grandchildren and their mother were not impressed, Anyway I ended up buying another, Now you end up choosing either having empty drive syndrome or empty wallet syndrome Good luck
Over and out? Trust me, the guilt becomes relief - we all sell up for a reason. Forget a bigger modern van, you can start collecting scooters again!
Plan Purple. He needs some! Me and the Dickster @Dicky went to the EMSA do on Wednesday at the White Horse in Derby. There's some tasty metal out there. Got captured on the way out coz I'm slow... Come @Dazza , you know you want to..
In my local plumbers merchants they once worked out how much my van cost me and how many nights in B&B’s we could have had instead!! It’s quite a lot, even more so now I’ve got two vans
And that boat and all the time to use them.. but that is used up working at the daily grind, I have bought a brand new car in Spain that Centauro are keeping
we kept a car for 6 years in Spain for when we visited after we had come back to the uk. Not even particularly necessary as we drove over at least once a year our Spanish neighbour owns it now
Quick, go through your old posts and delete all the details about the bodges you've done I remember selling my campers in the past and they were all heart wrenching moments. Even this lump of Transit rust will tug at my heart when I sell it.
I've set a budget for the replacement ( which will have 4 wheels ) but if I'm lucky enough to find something under that I might ..just might have enough for a project
How very true, I've not slept properly since putting it up for sale ... Can't put my finger on it but you're right, now it's gone and I've sold it with a clear conscience ... It's a weight off my mind
Yeah, looks like that maybe, but it's the opposite in reality. I used to race dinghies twice a week for a decade or two. The concentration to get the best use of the wind and is like meditation and using the rules is like chess, your mind clears of everything else and the physicality of it is great exercise. And dinghy sailing is as cheap as chips because to the onlooker it looks a bit crap, dull and pointless. More fool them. Out on the sea in a bigger boat is different, each leg much longer. I helped sail a catamaran along the South coast. Set the sails, set the autohelm, could have cooked Sunday lunch without doing a thing to the boat. Peacefully quiet, 200 miles and no fuel used.
As previous enjoy for what it does, and by the time you retire you won't be able to get to Europe because your batteries will be flat. We have both T6 and old camper and tbh by the time we have drove our bay a long distance we need a weeks holiday to get over it whereas a modern vehicle is less of a chore. I preferred our little ones in a safe vehicle but everyone has a choice. Sent from my SM-A127F using Tapatalk
I think you have hit the nail on the head there @Zed ... my son gets loads out of his dinghy sailing and the bigger boat stuff is for me. Man against the wind and tide. The photo above was from the round the island race so was plenty going on with 1000 other yachts on the course, needed to have your wits about you. Its so environmentally friendly as well, usually no more than one trip a year to the fuelling berth, the wind is free. I must explore cooking of a roast whilst on the go.
