A Sailing Journey Update: My Life Now

Join me as I share an update on my sailing journey and my life now. From exploring new destinations to the challenges of life on a sailboat, this travel vlog gives you a glimpse into my adventures aboard my Newport 28 sailboat. The ads pay the bills...please watch the video all the way through. I've started a new business! I've been thinking of ways to get myself, and this channel, sustainable. Growth is happening at a good pace, but until it is fully financially feasible, I need to work. It seems easy to just get a job...and it is, but the challenge with that was time. I still need time to practice sailing, and to explore! Again, as it often happens, the idea came to me from a chance discussion with a new friend, Sebastian. I used his old business name, Varnish King, and made a few Facebook posts. Now I have some wood refinishing gigs going and money is flowing better. Now though is the time to bear down with this work and build up the coffers to get comfortable. I am really looking forward to my upcoming trip to Colorado to meet Mary's friends and family. I've never been to that state. Mary has been sending me pictures of her adventures and it looks amazing. I have two weeks before that trip to go hard and save some money. Then, when I get back, I'll work for a couple weeks more until Mary can get here in late August. Once she is here on the boat, the travel expenses will be lessened and the focus can go back to finding the new boat, sailing, and exploring the Gulf Islands off the coast of Vancouver Island...together. Again, I am not quite there yet with what I had envisioned with the channel. But, this is the reality of what is going on with me. I've never been happier or more satisfied with my life...so I'm just going to share that with all of you and let the chips fall where they may. I have found my forever person. The rest will just all come together into something amazing here on the channel...I can feel it happening! 00:00 Intro 05:16 Big recap of the journey so far 07:10 I feel like I'm winning Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/johnswildlife Amazon Author Page - Journals and books by John David Schneider - https://www.amazon.com/stores/John-David-Schneider/author/B0CDQVTGDL?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true YouTube Membership - https://www.youtube.com/@JohnFrasersWildLife/membership John's Wild Life Shop - https://www.johnswildlife.com/the-store Cubic Mini Woodstoves - https://cubicminiwoodstoves.com/collections/all?ref=yzg3ndi Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG6diCN-nm_nUS-BS-hJHTA/join