🎶Come sail away with me🎶
Over the past 2.5 years, we’ve made our adjustments toward living in our tiny floating home. While at the dock, we’ve been busy making both our living and working environments more comfortable and functional. It’s a never ending battle to find space and to stay organized. I keep finding more nooks and crannies to…
Last week someone commented on the blog and asked about how living aboard has affected our relationship. As I was typing a response that was getting longer and longer, I decided that it would be a good thing to write a whole post about. There are a lot of factors involved in a good…
I’ve Been wanting a Drone for years. Someday when we get back into making videos it will be great to have. But until then I just get a new toy. To say I’ve been researching extensively is a slight understatement. I’ve been obsessively reading reviews and specs, and watching YouTube reviews of nearly every…
It was 8 years ago this week that this sailing bug really hit me. Before that sailing was a thing that I had done on rare occasion with friends on their little sailboats on little lakes in the mountains. I do (barely) remember sailing on my grandfathers boat on Lake Superior, but I was…
There comes a time in nearly every boat owners life that they must confront. What should we do with the teak? You can ask 100 sailors what they would do, and get 100 different answers. Answers range from emphatically saying “NO TEAK!” to “You have to lovingly touch up the varnish weekly, its a…
Are we dragging? I think we’re dragging. Crap, we’re dragging! The wind was blowing 40+ knots, other boats in the area had started heading home, and we had just started dragging our anchor. This was after we had already settled in for the afternoon and had popped our first bottle of Champagne. After weeks…
We get to play a sort of game nearly every day here at the marina. What is that floating thing? Given the different tides and winds our marina often has some random stuff floating. The sad thing is it is often just trash. With Earth Day this week, its a good time to think…
There are times that it seems like we are stuck in a loop (cue Westworld theme). During these times I have found that if you look for the small things you might find that life is better than it feels. This week was a good example of that. While it may seem like we…
Living in a marina is an interesting experience to say the least. I’m not sure I can even come up with a good analogy becasue it is so different. My first though was trailer park, but while some of the odd stereotypes are true, its just not right. Maybe suburbs, but that’s not good…
Its been an interesting few weeks hasn’t it? With the world engulfed the pandemic of COVID-19, we find ourselves limited to the confines of home. Well, somewhat anyway. Shannon and I already were fairly self isolated by design. We live on the boat, we work at home, and other than we don’t go out…
