Cruising Sailing; It's all about the people that you meet.

Cruising Sailing; It’s all about the people you meet.

After meeting Brian B1 and Marie and hearing their tales of sailing to Shark Bay and return in the company of another boat, we began to look at different options and ideas on where we thought we would like to sail to.

The Kimberley region in WA, was one big hairy goal that we had in mind. We had read many many stories about yacht rallies to places like the Louisades and Indonesia.

At that point though, with our business growing rapidly it was hard to see how we would possibly get the time to venture anywhere that took more than a  week.

We had to persevere with many 14 to 15 hours days as all our energy went into running our business, while the boat waited in it’s marina pen. We would use it for a few hours on the weekend, then it was a quick clean and pack away again. Each time we used the boat we longed to do more.

An opportunity came to us at that point. A friend of mine from way back called to say he was unhappy working where he was, did I know of any work around in business management lines.

I suggested that he come and see us, to talk about the possibility of a business development role with us. I knew he was keen on running his own show one day. After our first initial discussion I saw an opportunity for us to be free of the business.

Perseverance was demanded at this time. Leanne found it hard to see how Allan was the key to us being free of the business, yet retaining some income from it. I presented many financial scenarios to her. To me it was straight forward. He wanted a chance to make some money and we wanted to pay to get our free time back.

Allan joined our business. However  the business grew even further, which meant that we were still tied to it.

At this time, with the help of Brian and Marie, our catamaran friends, we were offered the opportunity to move to the Mandurah Marina. We had no sooner moved our boat to the new accommodation, then we were introduced to Brian (B2) and Eva. These were the folks that Brian (B1) and Marie had sailed to Shark bay with.

One of our early encounters with B2 was when we asked if he wouldn’t mind helping us get our new mattress on board and into situ on our boat. He kindly assisted and then proceeded up and down the G jetty at Mandurah Marina, telling everyone he could find, that the catamaran Easy Tiger had a new mattress and would be trying it out tonight. Check for smiling faces in the morning.

Six months later, we hatched a plan to all go sailing to the Abrohlis Islands together

 

Brian (B2) and Eva's Boat Zofia (Could use another hull! )