Blue Moon Life Archive – Page 1

This video chronicles a 6 day trip from Pender Island to Downtown Victoria Harbour. Along the way we had to repair a leaky coolant hose.

Join us on a tour of our home, a 1978 Catalina 30 sailboat named Blue Moon. We have lived aboard our tiny home in Downtown Victoria, BC for 6 months now.

This video brings you on our journey though acquiring and moving onto a Catalina 30 sailboat. We now live-aboard our tiny home on the ocean full time.

I woke up this morning to a bilge FULL of water. In this video I show how I diagnosed and repaired the automatic bilge pump in our liveaboard Catalina 30 sailboat.

This video walks you through how we make sourdough in our toaster oven on our Catalina 30 sailboat.

In this video, we leave the sailboat for the morning to go hiking. Gillian describes the practice of forest bathing and how important get outside into nature.

In this video, we make some homemade sourdough pizza in our tiny oven on the sailboat and how. Cooking in the little galley on the sailboat.

In this video, we take a winter surfing trip. To get to the beach you have to hike down a short trail through the rainforest.

This is a fairly standard day in our life on our Catalina 30. In most ways, boat life is just like regular life...work and chores and meals and studies and such.

In this video, we insulate the v-berth of the boat (where the bed is) to help deal with some moisture problems we've been having.

This video gives the seven ways we stay warm while living on a boat in the winter. Cold weather and boat life, how to deal with it.

In this video, we captured some footage of a windy winter storm. Storms can be challenging when living on a boat, waves and wind causes loud noises.

In this video, we try to fix the moisture problem on the boat. Moisture is a big challenge when living aboard, especially during the winter.

In this video, it snows on the boat! We had some very unusual winter weather here and got quite a few inches of snow and some very cold weather.

In this video, we share a winter surfing trip to Tofino, British Columbia. It actually snowed while we were on the beach!

In this video we discuss how much it cost to purchase and fix up our 30 ft Catalina 30 sailboat, which is now our full time tiny home.

In this video we discuss the cheap cost of living on a sailboat. We have found this lifestyle to be surprisingly affordable.

In this episode, we finally get around to some of the boat projects we've been putting off all winter!

In this episode we FINALLY get around to dealing with our very old and grungy toilet. We freshen up our toilet seat with a new coat of paint.

In this episode, we answer some of your questions so you can get to know us a bit better.

In this video, we upgrade some of our boat's insulation with some 1/2" foam puzzle piece floor mats. Moisture is still public enemy number one on the sailboat.

One of the main questions we get asked about living on a sailboat is "do you work?"

After a winter on the docks, we finally got our dinghy back in the water! The outboard motor gave us a fight, as usual...

Living on a 40-year-old sailboat means there are always lots of things to fix up! This week we took on some afternoon projects to reseal the sink...

In this episode, we managed to get the outboard motor running so that Gillian can pick me (Jonas) up from my last day of work at my building near the water.

This episode is the first we've done apart. Many parts of living on the sailboat are a lot easier with two people sharing the chores and such...

This week we decided to bring you along for a very important (but rarely discussed) part of our lives - how we shower while living on our sailboat!

In this episode we decided to change things up a bit. We take you off the sailboat and onto the land to explore some of British Columbia's incredible wilderness

We decided to take advantage of the beautiful spring weather and FINALLY take the dinghy out! It was a fun adventure, although not without challenges...

This is the first episode of our new series, Coffee on Blue Moon! We hope this is a place for us to sit down and chat about what's on our minds!

In this episode, I take a break from Boat Life and head home to see my family. However, an unexpected delay turned our day trip into 2 long days.

I try to maintain our little sailboat floating home the best I can! In this episode, I start a little garden on the boat and fix a leak.

In this episode, I expand our little sailboat garden by adding some herbs and cucumber to the collection!

This was a bit of a weird week, with a few projects being drawn over multiple days with varying levels of success.

In this episode, I recruit my brother to help me service the Universal M25 Marine Diesel engine on my 1978 Catalina 30 sailboat.

In this video, I noticed that the stuffing box on my 1978 Catalina 30 sailboat was dripping A LOT which was likely contributing to the water in the bilge.