There aren’t many times where one of my loves of my past life (spreadsheets) combines with sailing. But coming up with a solution for how to track our performance under passage was the perfect opportunity! I created this spreadsheet as a way to help plan our passages, track our performance underway and help us make…
I never thought of myself as a particularly creative person – I have a degree in Mechanical Engineering, ran a small business, and have been traveling full time on my boat for the past seven years, none of which are especially creative pursuits. But something changed in the past year – maybe it’s the end…
Now that we’re back in Texas and living on land, we’ve been visiting friends (with social distance) and seeing our doctors. I’ve actually had two comments: Friend: Ya’ll don’t LOOK like you’ve spent six years out in the sun. My PCP: Your skin looks great. What sunscreen do you use? Tons of sunshine out on…
As we sailed from Recife, Brazil to the Caribbean, the world started to shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We’d made the decision to aim for Antigua, which ended up being absolutely perfect. We arrived in St John’s, the only port of entry open, on March 26th and cleared into the country, aware that…
This post is a collaborative effort between myself and ‘Hope’ from Covert Castaway. I heard her podcast episode titled Getting a Risk Plan and was very intrigued by what exactly a risk management plan for a cruising boat would look like on paper. Hope is familiar with risk management assessments through her job as a…
This post is a collaboration with Macario Advantage, a non-profit organization run by our friends Magoe and Clair. We wanted to take some time out of our lives to hear about the goodness cruisers can accomplish, especially in this difficult time. We first met Magoe and Clair because we wanted to buy their boat! Sailing…
From almost the very first day that we talked about selling all of our things and living on a sailboat, we talked with the goal of circumnavigating in mind. It took us nearly ten years to get from starting to talk about sailing around the world to actually completing our goal. To complete a circumnavigation,…
One of the hardest parts about the cruising life is that friends come and go so frequently. When we say goodbye to someone, we never know when we might get to see them again. David is fond of saying “another day, another bay” because we truly don’t know when and where we might see someone…