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Pine Island
Sitting in the cockpit, as the sun was rising, enjoying my first cup of coffee, I heard a sharp exhale of air, like someone or something breathing. As I glanced across the anchorage at Pine Island, I noticed several dolphins swimming around the boat. This was going to be our first longer term anchorage along Continue reading
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Overnight Passages
Even being three miles off the coast, the quiet, the stars to the east of the boat. Not seeing anything else out there, save a freighter or a cruise ship on the horizon, it’s magical. There’s a peace that comes with sitting at the helm on a calm night with the disconnection from everything except Continue reading
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Departure Update
On Facebook, when I published last week’s post, I wrote that we were hoping to leave for St. Augustine the next day. I later posted that it was not a full blog post, but that we didn’t get to depart. The more I’ve thought about it, there really is a story there that I think Continue reading
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Everything breaks…all the time…it’s a boat!
When we first made the decision to sell everything and buy a boat for travel, my grandmother said, “Don’t do it. Your grandfather was always fixing something on his boat. Everything was always breaking. You’ll always be working on it.” I thought to myself, well, I’m always fixing something in the house, how can it Continue reading
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Navigating Setbacks: Restoring and Testing the Sailing System | The Great Wander
When we set out on this adventure, my grandmother warned us that my grandfather was always out there working on his sailboat. Everything is always breaking she said. He was always buying parts for it and going out to the dock to fix it. She’s not the only one to have said that. I’m pretty sure that every YouTuber Continue reading
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Progress!
I’ve been writing a about our difficulties. Lightning strikes, no power, stuck at a dock. I was beginning to think my blog about sailing was going to be about boat repair and that was it. I am happy to write this time, though that we are making headway! We are beginning to think about weather windows, not quite there, Continue reading
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Rotten Bulkhead!
There is still a lot about the summer that I want to share with you. Traveling through the national parks in the west was truly awe inspiring and as I look back now, I want to go back through more of the parks and spend more time at some of the parks. Like I said before, it Continue reading
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Living in a house vs. a boat
So, as I said last week, we’ve really only experienced docklife and not boatlife. But I was thinking about it and we are still in a position to be able to see some real differences between this and our life in a house. Sure, there’s a lot that includes not having full time jobs anymore, but really Continue reading
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Living on a sailboat, Is it worth it?
It’s hard to say right now if it’s worth the sacrifices living on a sailboat. But the truth is, we really haven’t experienced boatlife yet. We’ve experienced dock life. And there is a difference. Boatlife and docklife are always going to encompass work. Your engines will break down. Hoses need to be replaced. Decks need cleaning. Dishes need washing. Sails need mending. Take your pick, Continue reading
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Start of Boatlife
People always said that cruising on a boat is simply fixing a boat in exotic places…I’m ready for the exotic places to begin. In early August I flew down to Florida to begin preparations for the boat to go in the water. Then at the end of that week, One Life would go in the Continue reading
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