"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."
""That was what made us decide that this is what we wanted to do: we wanted to work towards being able to do this full time," Jackson tells PEOPLE. 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."
In 2001 Linda Jackson took a year-long sabbatical, sailing from Northern California to Zihuatanejo, Mexico, and back. The couple set off on a 34-foot performance cruiser and fell in love with life on the water. Over the next decade they prepared to live aboard full time, selling possessions, digitizing documents and photos, and fixing a 50-foot live-aboard vessel. They officially left California in 2011 and developed skills to live an autonomous life at sea. The couple sails with crews of one to four, including friends, family, or locals found online. They now cruise islands in the South Pacific aboard an 80-foot yacht.
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