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When we bought our 38 foot sloop 17 years ago, we thought we had it all figured out– well, about what we were going to name it anyways. Everything else was still up in the air, but we thought we...

In a previous life, Scott and Kim called themselves an engineer and an advertising rep. Since 2005, however, they’ve been fleeing corporate oppression and pondering the meaning of escapism. They left...

https://youtu.be/Uy3YyjMSOJU Over the past year we have taken on more projects than we can honestly handle, but we are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. We have always stayed pretty low...

Log – 10/5 Wednesday      We’re anchored on the north shore of the river in about ten feet. It feels so nice to be anchored, even though a killer hurricane is headed our...

     Eleven years ago Kim and I were swept over by a bold vision. We were tired and bored to death with trying to hustle some kind of existence out of the padded walls of a “cubicle,” so we decided to...

 It is 7:00am and we are both still laying in bed listening to the waves crashing on the reef in front of us. We have been out exploring with our snorkels, spearing fish and combing the beaches for...

Kim and I have combed through a lot of wreckage in our time. We’ve found wrecks washed up on beaches and discovered them tangled in jungle vines. We’ve found them torn open and soaking on tropical...

After spending two years in Panama and Colombia we thought it was time to move on. We had met some wonderful people along the way and the water exploration was phenomenal, but we were ready for a change....

One of the features that I loved about our boat when we purchased it is the 6 ft long salon table. I imagined having guests over for drinks and dinner in remote anchorages and having plenty of room to...

Following are our journal entries from the time we spent in the magical Vivarillos and Cayo Becerro off the coast of Honduras. We stopped at these isolated reefs on our passage from the Quita Sueno Banks...

Everyone always told us to just go. You can work on projects underway. Cruising is just fixing your boat in exotic places. Well, we took some of that advice and after fixing the “major” stuff we took off...

https://youtu.be/CFycOt0Xcuo   In this episode – Sailboat Refit – Dreams vs Reality – Too Many Fumes, we dive into what it was like to follow our dreams over a decade ago and show you what a day working...

https://youtu.be/xb7N3bY33DE In this episode – Something’s Missing – we share our experiences with wandering around tropical islands for years. We’ve been to a lot of populated...

https://youtu.be/qJReAPUymFs A cruising boat is a lot like a play-fort – a play-fort that can carry you to thousands of dreamy and unheard of destinations scattered all around the globe. Recently we’ve...

https://youtu.be/tyWy3jnvtow In this episode – Something’s Brewing – we give you a sneak peak at the insane project we’re taking on and show you what it’s like sharing a ten...