Jill Bockenstette has been sailing for 10 years and has lived aboard her 1998 Hunter 450 Passage, Pelagia, full-time for over 3 years. She has traveled over 5000 nautical miles in the Mobile Bay, Gulf of Mexico, east coast of the United States, the Bahamas and the Caribbean. She loves to share her passion for sailing and things she has learned along the way in this salty lifestyle.
It is the dream of many people to get out of the daily grind and escape to the sea on a permanent sailing adventure. But how much does it cost to cruise on a sailboat full-time and live this dream? One of the scariest parts of this massive decision is typically the question of whether…