Category: Current Blog
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What do we do now?
Many of our boater friends, asked us about keeping busy, now that we are land based. This is not just an issue around moving ashore, but one that everyone who is retiring has to answer. In our case, we retired from work twice now. The first time, in 2016/17 when we both left our jobs,…
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From Boat Life to Townhouse: Our Christchurch Journey
After spending more than nine years on a 47-foot boat, living on land feels absolutely luxurious. Our new digs are a three-bedroom, two-level townhouse with a spacious single-car garage. Every day, we wake up thrilled to be in our new home. We moved in December 2025 and had to purchase almost everything—furniture, kitchen appliances (except…
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Living in Christchurch: A Journey from Boat Life
The journey from living aboard to living back on land began for Jenny and I almost 7 months ago. We have been ashore and now residence of Christchurch, in the South Island of New Zealand since we sold Southern Star, and packed up our modest possessions into a covered 4×8 trailer, and headed south. The…