A sailing license, but in specific sailing experience is very important of you want to be living on a sailboat.
While the sailing license gives you the basis to handle a boat and is necessary to get good insurance, sailing experience does give you the confidence to sail the boat, to dock it properly, to be able to react when situations get more tricky.
Many of you have been asking us how to get sailing experience so here our best ideas so far:
* go sailing with friends who already have sailing licenses
Once you defined which kind of sailboat you would like to buy and have found suitable options these are the following steps which await you
Take it our for a sailing trail if possiblelift our the boat and make a professional surveyReneogatioate the price if anything was detected during the surveybuy your sailboat and new home
We will write a second blog post which will go more into detail about sailboat buying, what you should look for when visiting the sailboat and what you can use to negotiate the price.