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  1. 2 snugtop extravision toppers on two different trucks and will buy another when I get a new truck next year. Will order the truck and the top on the same day.

  2. 5 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

    You were going to dump a Garand over the side?  Bro.......

    Do you even mexican prison?  

    Not sure I would cruise with firearms.  Seems like there are tons of issues with them dealing with customs and clearance when you have them not to mention countries that outright ban them from coming into port.  Hiding them would be an issue if you ever tried to use it or were caught with them.   Probably better awareness of your surroundings is more crucial and not transiting the gulf of adean  and areas of Indonesian or the Philippines if you are headed for a circumnavigation.   You are not going to fight off a boat of  guys with AKs anyway.   Look on noonsite.com and you'll find most issues to cruisers are stuff stolen off of boat decks at night or mugging/assaults that happen on the backstreets of town on drunken cruisers.

    As for the OP original cost, I think you will be low at $2k month if you are actually cruising and not just trying to live aboard cheaply at some anchorage.  Here  is a spreadsheet of the detailed cruising costs of one retired couple (www.SVBebe.com)  that  completed a circumnavigation over 10 years and tracked costs to the penny.  They had a ton of other travel and medical costs in there and old boats are expensive to maintain but I would think these are realistic costs that might be incurred.

     

    Budget+Actual+Cost+Summary+for+website+2

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  3. 11 minutes ago, Llano Estacado said:

     


    Tsk tsk tsk.

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    You need to decide if you’re working with engineers or O&G trash.

    FTR - I’m aware my old manager wears white velcro New Balances almost everyday, and the one before that wore 10 year old work boots.

     

    Midland should actually be a Carhartt FR shirt and Ariat FR jeans with steel toe redwings.

  4. Do spend a lot of time browsing Yachtworld and watching SV Delos and La Vagabond videos?  Do you have a spreadsheet with boat purchase costs, maintenance/living expenses, gear and spare parts lists that you play around with every day or so?  Have you tracked your retirement accounts/assets  and have a number set that is a kickoff point?   Have you figured out where would be the best place to spend 6 months to a year doing a refit on an older boat before heading out?  Do you want to cruise the Carribean/Bahamas/around the world or do you want to just live on a boat somewhere relatively inexpensive?

     

    Do you yearn?

  5. 20 minutes ago, Goo Punch said:

    sam's legs are freaking me out. 

    Didn't even noticed she had legs.  Was focusing on Haleigh's tits, hoping they would jump out.

  6. Don't buy a cheap mess kit like that one above.  The pot and skillet are useless and the utensils will break on the second use.  

    For non backpacking scout campouts, we had an adult patrol chuck box that had all of the cook gear we would use.  Each person was responsible for their own bowl/plate/utensils.  If this is the case for your needs, goto REI and buy one of these bowls  and a good plastic or stainless plate. This bowl is shallow enough that you can lick the inside clean  to reduce the mess when doing the dishes. Also get a good spoon (I like these as they are long enough to get to the bottom of a mountain house bag) and maybe a fork if you grill steaks or other meat on troop campouts.  Use your pocket knife for a knife.  

    If you are backpacking, you are really just boiling water.   I started with one of these and its a little heavy and a little tipsy but its indestructible and only $15 at Walmart. I keep one in the truck with a cheap chinese isopropane backpacking stove.  Otherwise get any 1-2 qt aluminum or titanium pot at REI that meets your price/weight break point.

    I gave my daugther a GSI Outdoors Bugaboo Camper Cookset ,  the Utensil Set and a  MSR Windpro Stove  so she would have a compact base camp cooking gear set.  When backpacking, she just takes the small pot and the stove.  

     

  7. 51 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

    One that gets a lot of meme-ing is the white-bread suburban furrowed brow Jason Bateman as the radical gnarly dude announcer of Dodgeball.  Very weird.

    Bold strategy Cotton

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