A question to ask a potential first mate

[Kettlewell]

Research shows that you should ask someone you're getting serious with whether or not they would like to go live on a sailboat--really!

Three questions tested above all others in determining if you and someone else have long-term potential are: "Do you like horror movies?" "Have you ever traveled around another country alone?" and "Wouldn't it be fun to chuck it all and go live on a sailboat?" If you find someone that answers all three the same way you do, the two of you might just belong together.

Take a look: http://lifehacker.com/these-three-questions-tell-you-if-your-relationship-is-1543213637

[sharkbait]

To be perfectly honest , I only ask them if they have Beer.

[tholepin]

Here's how our partnership worked out. First, she knew I wrote "horror" genre; second, she traveled to Europe solo for three weeks just after we met (Trip had been planned previously). Third, I was putting the finishing touches on my Sailstar 24 for a solo ICW cruise and in the blink of an eye we were repainting, hanging curtains and a total revamp of all things hygienic!

I'd say that research was spot on.

   . . . shaboom, shaboom, life is but a breeze sweetheart . . .

  tholepin

[CapnK]

Sounds like you could have written the article, tholepin. :D

[Kettlewell]

I guess it depends on your definition of "horror films," but some of our first dates were going to see old Hitchcock movies at college because they didn't cost anything and we didn't have any money. And both of us hate and avoid chainsaw massacre films. She had already traveled around a lot of Europe by herself as a teenager, then did it again in college, and that's when I rode my bicycle 3000 miles around Europe in the winter. We bought a sailboat together before we were married, and I proposed to her aboard a Cal 20 anchored during a gale in Nantucket. I guess we covered all the bases.

[Mario G]

When I got the Chrysler 22 she said " theres no way in heck I'm getting on that thing"  a year later shes telling me to find a boat we can live on.

[jotruk]

I bought a 27' Hunter and I wanted to buy a 30 to 32 footer and the other have said that she liked the hunter and that it is good for here so looks I get to keep it and do a few things to it.

[Mario G]

Theres alot of people I see living on 27 ft boats and smaller. I had the Chrysler 26 and would have been very happy living aboard that boat, it needed very little to make it a great liveaboard and would have cost me very little.  I'm sure imhave 3 times more in my 32.