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In the current age of technology, staying connected has become a necessary part of our lives. So much so that many people today can’t manage to leave their cell phones behind for an hour, let alone for days on end. When sailing, you have to get used to being disconnected from the world. Once we […]
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After a busy week of working, we finally leave Florida! On Friday, we motored out the St. John’s River to anchor at Sister’s Creek for the night after a quick stop for fuel. The anchorage is close to the inlet, decreasing the travel time to get to sea by 3 hours. At 7 am Saturday
Ever wonder what it would be like living aboard a sailboat and traveling? You can travel as far as you want (or as far as your skill level will take you) while taking your entire home with you. That’s the blessing of living on a boat. However, it’s a whole different world than living in
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Whose brilliant idea was it to go up the Intercoastal Waterway (ICW) again? Oh yeah…that was my idea. Not perhaps my smartest decision I suppose. I guess six months was enough time for me to forget our last struggle with low bridges and skinny water in a 50 foot sailboat. (See that crazy story here!)
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9 am—We get off the dock in Fort Pierce Leaving Fort Pierce was bittersweet. It feels like forever since we have been to sea and we were excited to get moving north. It was a crazy four months there with the COVID-19 crisis coming along in the midst of our ER nursing contract. We were
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We are so sick of the rain and cold we’ve had on our days off!! It seems the only nice days happen when we have to go to work. We keep busy with working inside but start to go stir crazy stuck on the boat so often. This week, the weather finally cleared and we
What does the crew of Seeking Kokomo do on their day off when the winds are blowing 40 knots from starboard, the boat is heeling over at the dock and a cold rain is coming down? We go treasure hunting, of course! The Treasure Coast The area around Fort Pierce, Florida is known as the
When sailing the east coast of the USA, you have the choice of going outside in the Atlantic Ocean (or Gulf of Mexico along Florida’s west coast) or travelling on the inside via the Intercoastal Waterway (ICW). Which way to go has been the subject of many great debates, including between Nick and I. The
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Batteries are our lifeline on a sailboat. Everything on the boat runs off batteries. They keep our refrigerators and freezer running. They run our water pump, flush the toilets and keep the lights on. When we are sailing, they run the VHF radio, chart plotter and other navigation instruments. Basically, the only things on the
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