Toto, We’re not in Texas anymore!

For fun, we decided to let chatgpt, an AI (Artificial Intelligence) chat bot write our blog post about our passage from Galveston, TX to Mobile Bay, AL. It’s strangely and mostly correct… Once there was a married couple, Justin and Shannon, who decided to go on a sailing trip from Galveston, Texas to Pensacola, Florida. They set off on their […]

Harvest Moon Regatta 2021

Upon coming back from Utah in June, we started our preparations for getting the boat into full cruising mode. We had, and still have, the plan of leaving Texas waters to Florida and beyond after the2021 holidays. One quick way to get everything ready was to participate in the Harvest Moon Regatta once more. We were thinking that it would […]

One month in

It’s now been a month in Texas, we’re on the Bolivar->Galveston ferry again to head to Kemah to look at some more sailboats. It feels like we ride this ferry a lot these days. There’s really nothing on Bolivar Peninsula. There’s only one decent store at all, and it’s a combo grocery and hardware store, aptly named “The Big Store.” […]

In Search of Wind!

In case you didn’t know, it is hard to find a sailboat in the landlocked state of Colorado! When Justin and I had this crazy idea a few years back about heading to the coast and finding a Sailboat, we didn’t quite know what we were getting into. If anyone knows me, you know that I love doing research and […]

Week One

Its hot, like really hot. All the time. Also humid. I didn’t know hygrometers ever said anything other than 20% humidity (that’s the lowest any of them I’ve ever had registered, and it never gets above that where I’m from.) So far, I have not seen anything below 80 degrees or 80% humidity since we arrived. I’ve never really appreciated […]