How do we afford our wandering lifestyle? The short answer is that we work for it, very hard at times, so that we are able to go cruising for months at a time. We have an entire section on this website dedicated to our financial philosophy. We share our expenses and thoughts on how we went from full-time corporate jobs to this wandering lifestyle.

We do all of the “work” i.e. maintenance and repairs to the boat, ourselves. Even the most basic of boat systems usually turns out a lot more involved than when first approached. For example the sanitation system. In order to upgrade Limerick’s aged sanitation system, we needed the advice of experts. We hired a consultant who specializes in boat sanitation systems to tell us what and how to do it (not to do it for us), poured over manuals and books (this one in particular), researched innumerable hours on the internet, and made inquiries to manufacturers.

After the research and consultation, it was fairly straightforward how to put the pieces together. Although not much fun work crawling around the bilge and dealing with a 35-year-old system. However, we saved thousands of dollars of what a boatyard would have charged to do a comparable job and we are happy to report that our boat is stink-free! In this manner, we have torn apart and revamped numerous systems on our previous boat Camille and our current boat Limerick.

Lately, we have taken that same approach to making money with our money: by enlisting the advice of experts and putting the pieces together ourselves. Just like the sanitation system the end result has been a professional-grade product with the satisfaction of thinking through the process and completing the trades ourselves.

The experts that we have relied upon are like-minded travelers at Wanderer Financial. They do all of the research and deliver precise instructions to our mobile devices on when to buy and when to sell. It’s up to us if we want to make the trade or not. DIY with expert advice.

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