boatlife, lifestyle, Sailing

Fernandina, Florida (Finally)

After Brunswick, Florida was finally just a hop, skip and jump away.  After a surprisingly chilly several months along the ICW, I kept joking that as soon as we hit Florida the temperature would jump by 20 degrees.  I wasn’t serious, but as luck would have it, almost literally as we crossed the GA/FL borderRead more…

boatlife, lifestyle, Sailing

Following our noses in Brunswick, GA

With Savannah behind us, we were hoping to make it to Florida as quickly as possible. Unfortunately the weather had other plans. A pretty big front was moving in & bringing thunderstorms and some significant winds. After some quick research, we decided to tuck in at the Brunswick Landing Marina in Brunswick, GA. Not tooRead more…

boatlife, lifestyle, Sailing

Wine-ing it up in Beaufort, SC

We were of course shaken up after our misadventure as we were leaving Charleston. We kept going over it in our heads to see what we could’ve done different, how we could have prevented it. Now we’d have to figure out how to get the replacement oars which means we’d have to stay somewhere longRead more…

boatlife, lifestyle, Sailing

History and Food in Charleston

On January 29th, after many goodbyes and thank yous to everyone at the Charleston City Boatyard for taking care of us for two months, we set out for our next destination, our first since the big debacle. While we were in the Charleston area for two months, we were pretty far from the city centerRead more…

boatlife, lifestyle

Liebster-fied!

One of the best things about this whole “cruising” lifestyle is the awesome folks you meet along the way.  The boating community in general seems to be a pretty friendly group, but there are some folks who you just have an immediate connection with beyond just having “the whole cruising thing” in common.  Ryan andRead more…

boatlife, lifestyle

It’s the boatyard life for us…

You know that song from Annie, “It’s the hard knock life”? Well, it’s been playing in my head non-stop, except the words are “It’s the boatyard life for us…” It’s been about a month and a half that we’ve been “on the hard” (out of the water) – almost as much time as we’ve spentRead more…

boat work, lifestyle

When the original plans don’t work out, it’s time to make new plans.

We were sure we’d be in Miami for Thanksgiving! How could it possibly take more than two and a half months to make our way down the coast?! We (or more accurately I) imagined that each day would be perfect. We’d keep moving the desired distance from one place to the next, see a beautifulRead more…

boat work, lifestyle, Sailing

I Think We’re Done With the ICW

It’s been kind of hard to write a post since leaving Oriental, mostly because it’s much more fun to write about the fun exciting days of cruising than the crappy, everything-goes-wrong-broken-boat days of cruising. But that’s exactly where we are. The passage from Oriental to Beaufort was uneventful, and we spent a nice evening checkingRead more…