Was just sitting here dreaming about winning the 25mil powerball jackpot and started considering just how much do you really need to be able to give up work and be able to sail fulltime.

Assuming you own your own house, or are prepared to rent in a "reasonable" abode, and you are prepared to drive a cheap bunky would $300 a week, between you and your partner, cover it?

aaaaaahhhhhhh dreams dreams dreams

Surely the partner could earn you more than $300.00 a week to sustain your life of leisure.

ok ok, forget the 300, that was just an arbitary figure I plucked out.

Lets say I do own my home, what can I get away with

Ah grumplestiltskin, this way of thinking truely shows your passion for the sport.

Whoever invented working needs to be shot. I don't call it work, I call it prison.

Anyway, the answer to your question is:
[1] Add up all of your living expenses for the entire year (this includes food, house repairs, car, windsurfing renewals, etc.)

[2] The total in part [1] is your financial freedom number. That is, all you need is a passive income greater than your living expenses and you no longer need to work.

[3] Now all you have to do is figure out the passive income part.

I hope this has helped you rather than depress you.

to stop working at 47 i need in the bank 5.4000,000.00
I HAVE NOT GOT THERE YET
WINDS BLOWING GOT TO GO

Hmmm... death is cheap and may be nicer than working but you cant windsurf when youre dead. If you stop work you will eventually run out of money and wont be able to maintain your kit or buy food but you could live on the beach sleeping in your board bag for quite a while before your ultimate demise.

The trouble with death is that we all know its bound to happen one day but we put it off as long as possible. The date of death is unknowable until it is either imminent or upon us. There is something to be said for planning this day well in advance. We can plan precisely our consumption of resources for one thing, make an occasion of our passing for another, even listen to our own eulogies if we could bear it.

This is what I will do when I'm on my second pair of hips and cant windsurf any more. But what to do about the immediate problem???!!!
We dont really need money, just the things that money can buy. The main ones being windsurfing kit, food, shelter, clothes and the occasional root. All of these things can be caged stolen or cajoled to some degree so why aren't we all doing it? We are a bunch of conformist wimps. We should all toughen the ***k up or kill ourselves anyway out of self loathing. So philosophical problem solved - quit work or die. The course is resolved. All that remains is the details...

clearly you have decided on NP gear only

After winning this Saturdays Powerball of $33 million and after buying a beach front home on Stable Rd, a unit on the goldy, a new place in Sydney, a new purpose built windsurfing pimp mobile, every piece of windsurfing equipment Ive ever wanted, flowers for the wife and an ice block for the kids I figure I can retire and just make ends meet

if ya got saturdays ticket thats ok

Bugger Grumps, I thought I had it sussed.
For real, imagine what you could do as a windsufer with that kind of dosh
having had this discussion with wife etc some say they would keep working or do something useful or worthwhile.
Whats more worthwhile than surf in the morning, drop kids at school, relax while wind picks up, sail to your hearts content and then barby at night. Every holidays are spent in exotic and windy places and the price of petrol and everyday worries is forgotten.
Bring it on please

every time I buy a ticket it's a winner right up until the machine says

"Sorry not a winner"

The trick is to postpone checking the ticket as long as possible that way you are a winner longer.

Fantasy is way cooler than reality

I'm fairly dept free but the old wage still gets sucked up So like you Grumps, I dream of the lotto win.
If the lotto train don't come in, you gotta work around it as md does. For me I do shift work, 2D's & 2N's in every 8 days, that's 2 days in every 8 days, and just over 6 weeks holiday every 9 months Gives me plenty of time for family & fun, and that kids that's what life's about

Gotta agree with the shiftwork. I worked if for a long time and when I discovered windsurfing it enabled me to sail around 250 days a year.
Now its weekends and the odd after work sail.

if your about 34 yrs and want to retire at about 40 you'll need about 5.5 million to last you until about 80 and pay roughly 100K per year, cool