"In 2001, Linda Jackson decided it was time for a break. After the dot com bubble burst and in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, she was looking for a new path. Having developed a love of boating in college, the management consultant and her husband departed on a year-long "sabbatical" sailing from Northern California to Zihuatanejo, Mexico, and back. The couple set off on their 34-foot-long performance cruiser and quickly fell in love with life on the water."
"Over the next ten years, Jackson and her husband - who she affectionately refers to as "the Captain" - did whatever they could to make this dream a reality. She left her job as a sales and marketing executive to start her own consulting firm. They also purchased their first live-aboard vessel, a 50-foot cruiser, which took about a year to fix before even getting into the water. " We started to divest of everything," Jackson says. "We digitized all of our documents and photos. Everything that we owned, when we moved aboard, was on the boat. We didn't keep a storage container, we didn't keep anything.""
Linda Jackson and her husband began extended sailing in 2001 after a year-long sabbatical cruise rekindled a love of boating. Over the next decade they prepared to live aboard full time by selling possessions, digitizing documents and photos, and acquiring progressively larger vessels. Jackson left a corporate marketing role and started a consulting firm to support the lifestyle. The couple launched their full-time liveaboard life in 2011, learned skills to sustain an autonomous life at sea, and regularly sailed with small crews of friends, family, or locals sourced online while exploring island destinations.
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