02. February 2017

After being on the boat for nearly three months now, I can definitely say there are some really great things about this lifestyle... and there are some real bummer things about this lifestyle, too. I can't state enough that uprooting your entire life and routine isn't easy, that we really aren't on a year long holiday and there are days that I want to transport (Star Trek-style) me and my family back home to "normal". Then there are other days when I can't imagine going back to "normal" life -...

29. January 2017

I’ve tried to start this post a hundred times. I thought of something like: We completed our first passage! or, We’ve done it! We’ve done a passage, or, look at us! we made it! after which I would babble on about details about how things went and how we were fearless and how we are much better sailors now and… but in reality, I want the post to go something like this: A family walks into a bar. The bartender asks “why the bedraggled looks?” The family mumbles “we survived our...