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I'm Jim time stuff and this is life at

six knots one knot equals one point one

five miles per hour if you've ever

driven through a school zone at 25 miles

per hour you can imagine how fast six

knots is it slow and that's the point

after spending most of our adult lives

in a fast-paced existence driven by a

mortgage to pay a house to maintain and

a whole mess of thing must we simply had

to have we decided it was time for a

change we wanted to slow things down

experience life at a pace where we

weren't just watching the scenery passed

by but actually living in it it's not

that life was bad we actually had a

pretty great life we were surrounded by

friends and family we went on fun

adventures and we were more or less

happy but we didn't want to just have

adventures we wanted to live one we

wanted a life with fewer possessions

fewer ties and more time and energy to

experience and enjoy the beautiful world

around us in a time of our lives when

change was imminent we happened to visit

some friends in the Pacific Northwest we

spent a long weekend exploring Seattle

Victoria and Bainbridge Island on our

last day we were sitting at lunch over

Eagle Harbor and the marina discussing

our plans for the immediate future with

our friends when Jim said maybe we

should buy a boat and live here in a

marina it was a joke but it wasn't and

we had 13 long hours of the car ride

home to discuss it and find the reason

not to we never found one we had always

been drawn to water and we both grown up

around boats the decision to live on a

boat was an appealing one and we quickly

fell in love with the idea of living on

a sailboat the problem was neither of us

had ever actually been sailing so we

scheduled ourselves some lessons and we

learned how to sail on a holder 20 in

Lake Natoma with almost no wind at all

once I played must firmly in place and

we felt confident we would enjoy the

actual sailing part of the plan

we had to tell our families we'd be

moving to another state

it was torture trying to keep it from

them while we were figuring out the

logistics but we didn't want to get

people riled up before we were sure none

of them were fond at the idea of our

leaving but they were all supportive of

our choice to do something new and

exciting with our lives so we sold our

house and most of our belongings what

things we absolutely had to keep we

packed into a storage unit we filled the

back of the truck and hit the road for

Washington we started shopping for a

boat right away we must have seen 20

boats before we found just the right one

Jim is 6 foot 4 and that made steel boat

shopping a challenge as most have less

than six foot Headroom we also found it

was necessary to try out each of the

beds to make sure even some passed the

test others did not

after made boats and one heartbreak we

found will of a 36 foot islander 3/4 we

made an offer and bought our boat we

were ready for life at 6 knots