Big decision time....
Hello floating people. Well, sigh, life at sea got into me about 16yrs ago when I bought a 41T Hans Christian in Bonaire. Our boys were 4 and 7. We did every Caribbean island down to Trinidad for refit then up to the US and Nova Scotia and across N Atlantic back to our home in the Hebrides off the W coast of Scotland. Aaaaanyways after working as a scallop diver for 12yrs after this year at sea, and now that Our sons are grown up and I'm happily divorced (we're both friends for life-its family forever) I'm starting to think about next steps. I'm aged 52. Always worked outdoors. Fit and strong. Can't really afford to live in the UK. Life afloat might be way cheaper? Starting to think about getting another boat around 40/50' cutter rigged and heading over the horizon again....My gf in the UK won't come...she's at a different stage in life being a lot younger. I'm genuinely in a quandary. I don't want to just find a wee cottage and grow old and wait to die. I still want to push life into a corner and to get the marrow of it before I'm useless! But....As a single man? Such a cliche. Will I just become a lonely floating old fool?? Forgive the ramble here. Any sage advice gratefully received.