THANKS
Let me throw this out into the ring..my wife and I lived aboard a Tartan 30 1974 vintage..Did the intercoastal from VT to NC..appx 5 years worth of living aboard
Then lived on a mooring on same boat on Block Island Rhode Island for a summer..
I am an electrician by trade and always had work
We sold the Tartan to live on land again..But now the draw of the waterway life is pulling again..
Is it a case of being to the otherside of life, bigger boats, living on the water, enduriing storms, and spending hard earned money on the infamous hole in the water, that I (we), have to go again
I often times consider myself a little mental, (could be long VT winters, and working past three years down in Antarctica, during that planets summer season),
Are we, (me and the wife and the dog), hopelessly entrenched in a different way of life..

I feel the need for a steel boat to visit Antarctica on my own terms and boat.
I was stationed at Palmer Station, Anvers Island for 2 years, (6 months at a time), then last year at Ross Island, Mcmurdo, for 4 months with the wife Diane..hence the name BLUE PENQUIN for the Commander, #264..We were employed by Raytheon Polar Service..I was an electrician, she worked in the galley feeding the masses..

I could pay for professional help, but hell the ARIEL/COMMANDER group of fun loving professionals, seems as good a place as any for advice..after all one of the members is spending 30k on a restoration..


Iceman