Hi all,
I'm a backend web developer who's currently in the planning stage of adopting a nomadic lifestyle aboard a sailing boat. I'm intending in the next couple of years (or sooner depending on how my financial situation evolves) to buy a forty foot sailing yacht and equip it as a fairly comfortable liveaboard. I've been sailing on-and-off all my life and I'm going with a friend of mine who's an experienced yachtsman so I've got a fairly good idea of what needs to be done to make this viable.
My intention is to live nomadically rather than remain in a liveaboard marina, travelling from place to place between periods of remote work. This has been a dream of mine for a while, but the miserable stasis of life under lockdown has pushed me to make it a reality! Initially I'll be sticking to northern Europe and the Mediterranean but I'd love to eventually be doing Atlantic crossings too which means buying a boat that can endure such long passages.
I'd be really interested to hear the experiences of other tech workers living a nomadic lifestyle, especially but not necessarily those who live on ocean-going boats.
The big downside was overall loneliness and lack of connection - but it is hard to tease out how much of that was Covid. It was no more or less isolating than the first months of covid when I stayed put.
The planned plus was seeing places I always wanted to see. That worked out fine. It was the unplanned sights that make up most of my stories - sunset over the Sangre de Cristo while gloom rises out of the plains, freezing fog, driving into a white out in Santa Fe and many more.
The final result was the most surprising. I moved back to my hometown that I left decades ago. Having followed my whims I like now a reestablished home base, from which I can depart again for any period at any time.