What to do if the communists cheat their way into power.
Was eyeing a modest yacht, found a few nice used ones with low hours on the diesels and high seaworthiness.
I used to live in Miami back when I was a yout...so I have some familiarity with the sea.
My grandfather used to take a small cruiser he had down to Cuba to gamble and relax on the beach...pre 1960. He was a foreman on power plant construction in South Florida..a boilermaker.
Found a nice used 98Ft boat with three staterooms so I would have room for some of my accumulated junk...and just big enough to string up a multi-band inverted vee from stem to stern for Ham radio fun. The boat holds 9000 gal of diesel and 2500 gal of fresh water so you can go most anywhere. The boat is reasonably priced and should hold its value well. Needs some cosmetic work finished and the twin Detroit 450hp diesels need rebuilding as I think 4490 hours is too much to trust at sea...so add probably 100,000 for the rebuild and other more minor work. Needs a nice Garmin instrument package as well.
The old boat has a steel hull, I like steel way better than aluminum or fiberglass.
She has accommodations for 9 passengers and 5 crew. Should be able to load a small car and secure to the deck. It needs a lifeboat so I'd have to find one...there is a spot on deck set up for a lifeboat and a small car.
Slip fees at marinas along the Florida east coast are not too bad and have water, power and pump-out at the slip so I could move to FL and live aboard and be ready to pull out at any time for better shores in case the worst happened.
I'd be selling the farm, my home in Marion IL, and liquidating a mortgage we carried ourselves on a 6 acre mini-ranch in NM close to White Sands. Would liquidate my market account and everything else...basically I would just have the boat and the funds to live on it for as long as needed.
If it comes to it it will feel really strange to set out to sea and leave the US behind :-/
Many place I could go.... Israel might be nice for a while, checked slip fees in Barbados...they are high at 3500.00/mo but hey, it's Barbados
If I were to take the boat to Israel I would go to the North Atlantic and do the Canada-Greenland-Iceland-Scotland crossing.
Come on President Trump!! save me from having to do this.
I just wanted to have a simple retirement and play with Ham Radio on the farm.
Here is a shot of this old boat...not bad looking really..the fellow that was fixing her up fell ill and can't finish her.
Maybe I re-name her the FreeRepublic...lol
Will have to find a few like-minded people to go along....it's not a good idea to go solo on such a trek.
I could also go small with something like a 32-50ft boat but I would be limited to the Caribbean/Central America/South America.. No way I would want to cross the Atlantic in a small boat... the boats are fine for The Great Loop and for hugging the coast.
I could put the saved funds into precious metals and live in a small slip in Barbados or several other places for cheap.
Saw this small 40ft boat on Boattrader.com... just 49,500.00 and big enough to live on. A Spartan existence.
It is in FL.
https://www.boattrader.com/boat/1985-ta-chiao-ct40-sundeck-trawler-7576720/