wave gazer
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Hello TF members - first time poster here. If this post is not in the correct forum, please let me know.
I would like to know if there are any members in the Galveston, Houston, Corpus Christi Texas area that would be willing to allow me to spend a weekend with them on their vessel so that I can get a small taste of the live aboard life as well as cruising on the ocean. I would do tasks and of course pay a reasonable fee for this opportunity.
Sailing doesn't appeal to me.
The purpose of the expedition is for me to take one of the first steps in trying to find out if live aboard life and the ocean may be in my future. I only have inland lake recreational experience with a previously owned 28' motor boat. I have gone out on fishing charters (lots of people, fishing, catching each others lines) in the Gulf and not gotten sea sick, but who know what could happen.
If this concept is considered kind of weird, I apologize - not trying to be weird, just trying to save $$ and learn from someone who really likes what they are doing rather than paying a business for a charter.
If there is another way for me to take this kind of first step I am open to hearing about it. Of course I have been doing lots of reading about life style, boats, seamanship, etc. I don't want to buy a boat and then figure out it is not for me. I have my share of bad decisions already made.
Thanks from Austin, Texas.
(my profile info is accurate, but limited of course)
I would like to know if there are any members in the Galveston, Houston, Corpus Christi Texas area that would be willing to allow me to spend a weekend with them on their vessel so that I can get a small taste of the live aboard life as well as cruising on the ocean. I would do tasks and of course pay a reasonable fee for this opportunity.
Sailing doesn't appeal to me.
The purpose of the expedition is for me to take one of the first steps in trying to find out if live aboard life and the ocean may be in my future. I only have inland lake recreational experience with a previously owned 28' motor boat. I have gone out on fishing charters (lots of people, fishing, catching each others lines) in the Gulf and not gotten sea sick, but who know what could happen.
If this concept is considered kind of weird, I apologize - not trying to be weird, just trying to save $$ and learn from someone who really likes what they are doing rather than paying a business for a charter.
If there is another way for me to take this kind of first step I am open to hearing about it. Of course I have been doing lots of reading about life style, boats, seamanship, etc. I don't want to buy a boat and then figure out it is not for me. I have my share of bad decisions already made.
Thanks from Austin, Texas.
(my profile info is accurate, but limited of course)
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