Last Updated on October 31, 2021 by Amy While waiting or our new boat, Starry Horizons, to be launched from the Fountaine Pajot factory, David and I did some trips around Europe. Neither of us had been to Amsterdam, so we took off on the train from La Rochelle to Paris, and after a few…
Last Updated on October 31, 2021 by Amy While waiting or our new boat, Starry Horizons, to be launched from the Fountaine Pajot factory, David and I did some trips around Europe. We started by taking the train from La Rochelle to Paris, a 3-hour trip. This was my 5th visit to Paris, and a city like…
Last Updated on January 16, 2023 by Amy La Rochelle France would not normally have been on our radar for a tourist visit, but we are here to pick up our new home and adventure-mobile, Starry Horizons, our Fountaine Pajot Helia 44. Like all things related to boat buying, the process wasn’t quite as it…
Last Updated on November 28, 2019 by Amy We are just a few days away from our flight and getting to see Starry Horizons in person. As we have been saying our goodbyes, we are encouraging all of our friends and family to visit. That being said, there are a lot of things that a…
Last Updated on September 13, 2023 by Amy I completed our offshore medical kit and am super proud of it! In our offshore emergency medicine class, we covered a lot of important topics regarding health and safety at sea. The professors provided us with an example inventory. We also had a good discussion during our…
Last Updated on December 3, 2020 by Amy I kid you not, one of the to do items on my list was to “get rid of stuff”. This was an ongoing project, started over a year before we moved aboard our boat. I never felt that we were packrats; our residences have been on the…
Last Updated on August 22, 2020 by Amy When David and I met, David had been out sailing once as a child. Now, we’ve completed a world circumnavigation together and we are both experienced and skilled skippers. In the years between meeting (2008) and taking off sailing (2014), we were lucky to have a lot…
Last Updated on January 17, 2021 by Amy Cruising catamaran sail trim can be a fairly technical issue with differing opinions about how to best trim the sails to optimize boat speed and balance. I most certainly will not profess to be an expert in the subject, but I do feel I’ve come a long ways…