The list

Since the Freedom Project Started

Things we have done:

• Hired a realtor
• Placed our home on the market
• Went to the Seattle Boat show
• Looked at about a hundred boats on line
• Walked boats with brokers in Seattle, LaConnor, Anachortes, Friday Harbor, and Bellingham.
• Looked at Hunter, a classic custom wooden sloop, Benetau, Catalina, Tayana, Ta Shing, Waquiez, Hardin, LeFitte, and others.
• Figured out what it takes to make a live aboard space work.
• Scouted for Moorage
• Decided what we have to shed -- the list is huge.
• Emptied the storage space in prep for stuff going in there.
  
• Sold off two scooters, books, a car, all the bicycles, some guitars, stereo equipment, and more and put it all in the bank. Dealt with a lot of slime ball yahoos in the process from the craigslist ads.
• Talked to about 20 boat brokers.
• Made a decision to engage a boat broker as our representative.
• Placed a contingency offer on a Hardin 45, only to have the response be not what we want, then withdrawing that offer with a friendly, "thank you."

Still to do:

• Get an offer on the house we can accept.
• Hear that our buyers are qualified for financing.
• Start engaging our broker about boat choices.
• Get our closing date.
• Put an offer on a boat.
• Get financing for boat.
• Survey boat.
• Sea Trial boat.
  
• Find moorage.
• Arrange the estate sale of 90% of all our belongings. If it doesn't fit in a couple plastic tubs, it doesn't go on the boat.
• Arrange USCG classes for each of us.
• Estate sale successful and more cash in the bank.
• Start the process on the boat.
• Close the house.
• Move to a rented room if necessary.
• Close on the boat.
• Move boat to moorage.
• Move onto boat.

Begin living aboard.

There's more but that is what it is so far.