We did it. We overcame our performance anxiety and changed the oil in the boat this weekend. I’m sure this may not seem like a monumental task to most, but to us it was HUGE. Why the angst for a seemingly simple project? First of all, we have never changed the oil for...
That seems to be the theme of the day for us today. We spent the better part of the morning driving around town gathering the supplies we need to do our first oil change on the engines. This is something that we haven’t done yet and need to do before taking her out...
We took the dinghy into town yesterday morning to pick up a few things which was a lot of fun. I love the fact that we are a 5 minute dinghy ride away from downtown – a trip that would have taken twice as long by car. There’s a spot at the end of Ego Alley where we...
Since we moved aboard, everyone seems so interested on just how different life aboard is from life on land. The adjustment hasn’t been hard… just different. The biggest question we get is about the dogs. How are they doing? What do you do when they need to use the...
We’re finally moved in! Saturday was spent at the old house cleaning for the move out. Sunday was spent on the boat cleaning for the move in. By 6:00am Sunday morning, we were getting all close and personal with our starboard bilge trying to find the cause of the...
Shit happens… literally. And on the first day we had her back in Annapolis, no less! Figures. We noticed Sunday morning that the, shall we say, content level, in our one toilets was unusually high. Like to the point where it may actually overflow, leaving us with a...
Headed North on the ICW – Day 1Wednesday 6/19By 5am Matt, Simon (the captain we hired to help us navigate back) and I were on I-95 heading south. We ended up renting a Town & Country mini van for the one way drive down allowing us to leave the car in NC and...
Well, it’s officially official… we are the proud owners of a 1999 Lagoon 410 catamaran! We closed this morning and it’s finally, actually ours. It still hasn’t sunk in that we bought a boat and will be sailing it back to Annapolis in about 24 hours. We’ve been...
Whenever we tell people that we’re selling everything and moving onto a boat, we get two very distinct reactions… One is excitement and awe that we’ve decided to make such a bold move, and the other is a look of total confusion and the inevitable, ‘but, WHY?” We...
After a whirlwind 2 day trip to NC and back, we are excited to be the (almost) proud owners of a 1999 Lagoon 410 catamaran (paperwork pending!). We found this one the day after our less than stellar survey on the other boat put us back on the search. The pictures and...
