Shannon and I had our last sail of 2017 on Friday. The weather has been essentially terrible over the last few weeks. So finally, when the rain cleared up, we untied Nymeria from the dock and set off for a cold, winter day sail in the Galveston Bay. After getting out of the channel and into the bay, we hoisted […]
From the moment that Justin and I decided to make the move onto a sailboat, I started looking around our 1200 square foot house and became immediately overwhelmed. Though our house wasn’t wall to wall furniture or filled with knick-knacks, we were quite full and we also had a garage lined with boxes. We had plenty of new and old […]
Its been a long time, but we’ve finally “finished” another video. Some famous director once said, a movie is never done, it just escapes. In this video we take our first day sail out in the Galveston bay, and please the gods by pouring lots of champagne overboard. Enjoy!
After living on our Valiant 32 for roughly 120 hours, we were happy to take her out on our first shake-down cruise. Our agenda was simple: Make it through the channels into Galveston Bay, complete the renaming ceremony, and then go sailing! Since we had been planning on taking her out all week, our excitement and anxiety had been building. When the […]
Well, it begins, again. After four months here on the beautiful Bolivar Peninsula, we are on the move. This time across the bay to move aboard Nymeria. The boat spent the last week at the shipyard getting a new bottom job and some plumbing repairs required by our insurance. Tomorrow morning we get to relaunch her as our new home. […]
Its official, we are boat owners. Shannon and I took delivery of Nymeria on Friday and got to spend the day really getting to know her. It wasn’t an easy road to get here. It started back in July when we arrived here in Texas. After a few weeks the boat search really got going. Finally in October, after many boats […]
“The vessel was found mechanically and structurally sound, …maintained and equipped in above average condition for a boat this age.” That was the overall conclusion of the survey and sea trial. Other than a few minor, very fixable issues the boat is in excellent condition. The day started with yet another 6am ferry ride. We needed to get to Kemah […]
A few weeks ago, we made an offer on a 1985 Valiant 32. After a a bit of back and forth negotiation, our offer was finally accepted. Our next step is a full Marine Survey and a sea trial to determine is we actually accept the boat. A sea trail seems pretty straight forward. Hop on the boat and take […]
Justin and I were quite spoiled in Durango. In addition to great friends and beautiful landscapes, we had excellent internet. It was important to our lives then and it has become even more important now and I didn’t think that that was even possible. For some time now, Justin has been working from home as a software engineer while I […]
How do you decide a name? Naming a boat turns out to be a bit more of a challenge than I had expected. There are so many considerations to take into account. Superstitions are a big one, they even change regionally. Bananas? Cats? Never. Lots of names today seem to be “punny”, like Knotty Lady or Passing Wind. Once you […]
