Sailing - Our First Year: Changing from landlubbers to sealubbers

We Head South in About Three Weeks

The house sold in January and since then we’ve been living in a 1-bedroom basement apartment while we get our “stuff” in order. Mostly that means ditching almost everything.

We’ve had two big garage sales and are trying to get the rest of the things sold on Craigslist. The minivan and utility trailer go up for [...]

Dinner Between 2 Sailors

Last night at a technical conference dinner I sat at a table next to someone — and then a few minutes later someone sat down on the other side of me.

Shortly I found that the guy on my right had taught sailing for umpteen years and the guy on my left had skippered a 65′ [...]

The Sailboat / Catamaran We Want

My kids have started scouring the web for possible boats for us to liveaboard (even though we’re months away from being able to afford it) and Tom found this one today:HibiscusTake a look at those pictures — that’s a boat we could live on! =:)Yeah, It’ll probably be gone by the time we’re ready, but [...]

Wife is *almost* on board

My wife and I have had a few chats this week about my dreams and it looks like it’s boiling down to…

…if I can show how it’s going to work financially, she’s willing to take the leap and see how being liveaboards will work.

Woohoo! =:)

That’s a big change from the “I don’t want to talk [...]