Fortunately seems this is the last of it, basically they ended up replacing probably 30 percent of the port outrigger deck and over 75 percent of the front bottom area and 50% of back transom but now it's strong as furk

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5287319&forum_id=2#45909249)

I don’t think I’ve taken the opportunity to say it in your other boat threads, but I’m so happy for you man. I think this is a brave and exciting thing that you’ve embarked on and I’m rooting for you. I think it has the possibility to fill your life with fun and a sense of purpose. It’s a new and focused way to grow as we all navigate middle age.

I hope you let us continue to ride along and bust your balls all the way.

Fair seas and following winds, friend.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5287319&forum_id=2#45909688)

Still have to fix tons of little shit once the big shit is done but yeah i think at my age and situation this cld be 18000000 just sailing arnd avoiding humanity living off the grid and i think i somehow lucked out on the safest possible boat to single hand

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5287319&forum_id=2#45909698)

All this, and you haven’t even gone anywhere cool yet!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5287319&forum_id=2#45909720)

Afterwards you go Kerala and teach the sons of India’s emergent upper middle class to be the next generation of Tommy’s and set sail. You set up shop somewhere perpetually sunny and warm in SE Asia and take drunk German tourists on day trips to see the reef and ogle the wives. You set up a kooky free love commune on the boat with a bunch of Aussie hippies and teach them to sail (for XO’s content creation, please do this). You take your collection of amazing experiences and stories and use it to pull all kinds of octogenarian ass at The Villages in Florida.

Change is inevitable, but not uncontrollable. You dictate the course and boldly take the next step. Just like you’ve done here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5287319&forum_id=2#45909783)

and starting some sailing bus in india will have yugeeee potential, two of the ppl at my sailing school during my course were turds, its gonna be yugeee there one day soon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5287319&forum_id=2#45909809)

You always see them being like, “Well this was the most amazing place I’ve ever seen, wish we could’ve stayed more than two days, but we need new content for the ‘gram!” And then they point out all the kickass anchorages they’re skipping over as they rush off to the next thing to film with the drone. And then they sit down to edit that 14 minutes of footage for eleven hours and add in music from some hot 19 year old Mongolian lute player from Madrid who uploads a bunch of chill Nirvana covers as free-use on her SoundCloud.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5287319&forum_id=2#45909873)

I wish you the best bro.

Also wish this had been a tv show cuz I wooda watched it every Sunday night at 8PM

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5287319&forum_id=2#45909780)

then when they moved this to near shore in the mangrooves to actually inspect entire hull wld require walking in mud during low tide, at the time that was in early morning and i dont wake up so i never did

also the hull is just so furking big its hard to find everything

of course in hindsight im retarded but i paid this hellosir like 1k extra for all this other shit, maybe i shld have bought it for 12.5k instead of 15k but who cares

now we've inspected everything and found all rot so its all covered, its 4.5k to fix everythign quite amazing this wld be 30k in west

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5287319&forum_id=2#45909760)

at least for first month i want to have crew, then i will eventually move solo, i think this boat shld be 180 for solo i can even raise main sail from cockpit without going out, but the sail will be heavy and anchoring cld be a problem as visibility is difficult

my goal is to get to palawan with crew then just practice solo then go down south solo to malaysia inshallah

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5287319&forum_id=2#45909960)

You should really find a very experienced sailor to hang out/ sail with you for a few weeks to teach you the ropes - try to find someone on the crew chats. there are sailors looking for adventure. They will be wary of your inexperience and will probably want to be paid something, but they will be far cheaper than an instructor. make sure you like them before you invite them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5287319&forum_id=2#45910245)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5287319&forum_id=2#45912735)