We're a UK family who have saved over many years to live the dream of travelling the world with our kids. We sold our belongings, closed our business and rented our house to buy a 20 year old sailboat . We want to show the kids that there is a bigger world out there and to appreciate the simple things in life, things that you find in the sea, the woods, up mountains, along the beach , the sky and the stars.
Our dream of cruising and exploring the world's oceans is matched with a desire to live a more off-grid and sustainable lifestyle. A background as RYA instructors, flotilla skippers and RNLI crew only partly prepared us for the challenges of a live-aboard life!
From buying a boat to homeschooling the kids, from cooking on a budget to making money while we travel, from sailboat maintenance to visiting amazing places - join our journey and share in our world adventure, as well as the challenges of family life, through our series of video blogs.
We’re a UK family who have saved over many years to live the dream of travelling the world with our kids. We sold our belongings, closed our business and rented our house to buy a 20 year old sailboat . We want to show the kids that there is a bigger world out there and to appreciate the simple things in life, things that you find in the sea, the woods, up mountains, along the beach , the sky and the stars.
Our dream of cruising and exploring the world’s oceans is matched with a desire to live a more off-grid and sustainable lifestyle. A background as RYA instructors, flotilla skippers and RNLI crew only partly prepared us for the challenges of a live-aboard life!
From buying a boat to homeschooling the kids, from cooking on a budget to making money while we travel, from sailboat maintenance to visiting amazing places – join our journey and share in our world adventure, as well as the challenges of family life, through our series of video blogs.
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We sailed from Brisbane to Wide Bay Bar at Fraser Island and because of the considerable challenges and criteria to be met before you attempt to cross the bar, we planned this passage perhaps more carefully than we would normally do.
The great thing is tha...
We found the best surf spot and the Opera house in Sydney, we visited an off grid living co op and their alpacas ( not llamas) and Bondi Beach but who would have thought that there was a camel farm near Brisbane ?
Find out why , where and how.....
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We explore more things in Tasmania, outside of Hobart such as the Hastings Caves, Maria Island and a good 17km trek to Cape Raoul. There is so much to see but Maria Island had to be one of our favourites, the history, wombats, Tasmanian Pademelons, Fossil...
We have 10 days in Tasmania and we are going to see as much as we can. We visit the Botanical Gardens, Mawson's Huts Replica Museum, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Mount Field National Park, Salamanca Market, Battery Point Sculpture Trail, MONA: Museum ...
We arrive in Brisbane and tie up on a mooring buoy at the Squadron Club where hopefully the kids will go sailing. During the week we go to all the libraries to do schooling at we go exploring at the weekends. We do a couple of house sits and the boys get...
We found ourselves sailing virtually non stop from Cairns to Brisbane because the wind was right . Once we arrived in Moreton Bay , we got quite busy with our new favourite toy...the Hookah.
WE also went sand sledging, snorkelling and BBQ ing !
Go To PATR...
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I'm Renx and this is my first blog (or vlog!) to document my dream of buying a boat and go sailing around the world with my husband and three kids. There's a lot preparation involved and no template to follow, so I'll be vlogging everything from buying th...
A few weeks ago I was invited to take part in the Women's Keelboat Championships in the Solent. It was a great opportunity to do something competitive - something I really miss being a mother - but it was great fun too.
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This weekend I did W.O...
Onboard footage of our The Dubarry Women's Open Keelboat Championship boat. A weekend regatta of keelboat racing for yachts crewed solely by women. This year I crewed with four other intrepid female yacht racers. The event is hosted by Hamble River Saili...
Ever since I was a child, and even before I learnt to sail, I had dreams of circumnavigating the globe on a yacht. Having a husband and three children of my own hasn't diminished that lifelong ambition - it just take a bit more planning - but it looks lik...
Plans are moving ahead.. but the boat buying is proving more difficult (and more expensive) than we ever thought. We've looked seriously at two boats, surveyed one and now we've just made an offer on a third. Woody has travelled all over to inspect poten...
Working two jobs, three kids and running a house is difficult at the best of times, but summer holidays and packing up a house ready for our big move really add to the complexity and stress. As a working mother, trying to keep on top of it all seems an im...
We've had a survey done on a great boat - an Amel Super Maramu - but it's far from perfect and there's a lot of work to do on it. Nevertheless, we've put a deposit down and are steaming ahead! Even so, preparing to live the dream is stressful - we have t...
We've moved several steps on to getting afloat - we've sold the car -
(which was way more emotional than we imagined) advertised the house and at long last bought a boat! It's an Amel Super Maramu (exactly like the SV Delos crew as everyone keeps tellin...
We finally made it!
In October of this year we upped sticks from Brighton - UK and moved to Greece to live aboard our 53' Amel Super Maramu yacht. An unbelievably emotional and stressful time leading up to the day, but so much relief when we finally step...
This video blog has been totally handed over to the kids. Their voices have rarely been heard in the run up to leaving on on this world sailing trip so it's only fair that we let them share their hopes, aspirations and concerns.
Here they discuss the jou...
An eventful first week as liveaboards. A hasty departure from the quayside in Preveza (due to an overflowing holding tank!) led to a lovely sail up the Northern Ionian to Parga and Paxos. We squeezed in our first swim off the boat in Parga then, following...
After a tense night anchored on a lee shore we up'd anchor and sailed to Gaios. There we found a quaint village, went for beautiful walks in the olive groves and even got the bikes out. We thought we'd found treasure on the sea bed (which would have paid...
Woody watches a flotilla coming in to Parga and remembers his old days as a flotilla skipper for Neilson Active Holidays. We're beginning to hit our stride with the home schooling and a quick stop over for lunch extends into a couple of days at anchor in ...
We head south through the Lefkas Canal and into the Southern Ionion to meet up with some friends chartering a yacht from our old employer - Neilson Active Holidays. We arrived early - they arrived late, so we had some fun on the beach until they arrived.
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We meet up with some friends who charter a yacht for the week and sail around the Southern Ionian, exploring caves on Meganisi and beaches on Ithaca Island. We're hit by another storm and go against our off grid principles by sheltering in a cafe with a b...
After problems with the boat and stormy weather our plans for travel and adventure change and we end up spending the winter months in Lefkas, Greece. We take up some new hobbies like horse riding, knitting(!), hiking and guitar and get to know our fellow ...
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A decade of planning, saving and sacrifice to eventually live the dream of traveling the world by sea. We sold all our belongings, quit our jobs, rented the house, took the kids out of school and searched for the best cruising boat w...
There’s no sailing in this blog but we did get to explore the snow-capped mountains that we could see from our boat in Lefkas Marina.
We hired a car and headed for the hills - an easy journey as there were hardly any cars on the road, so we wound our w...
So we finally left Lefkas and we're sailing again after a long cold wet winter! We hoisted the sails, turned off the engine and were met with beautiful white caps and magic dolphins. What a thrill! It was sad to say goodbye to all the friends we'd made ...
We had mixed feelings about leaving Lefkas - it was sad to say goodbye to our new friends but we were really excited about setting sail again.
We did last minute shopping, engine checks and a rig inspection from where we could see all the walks we'd done...
All of our sailboat repair and maintenance blogs are now hosted on our dedicated maintenance channel, MOTHERSHIP MAINTENANCE Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/c/mothershipmaintenance
An edited version of this video is now hosted there.
Replacing...
All of our sailboat repair and maintenance blogs are now hosted on our dedicated maintenance channel, MOTHERSHIP MAINTENANCE Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/c/mothershipmaintenance
An edited version of this video is now hosted there.
Scrubbing...
We thought it was worth doing a standalone blog just on this because it was quite serious and there was a lot to learn from it.
We are involved in a genuine rescue at sea while on a Greek ferry between Athen and Aegina. About half way along our journey ...
The rowlocks were a none standard size on the kids dinghy and we couldn't get any oars to fit, so Woody cut off the old rowlocks and glued on some new ones he found on some abandoned dinghies by the skips in the boat yard.
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It's been roughly a year since we started video blogging and although in the beginning I hated the idea of being in front of a lens, on social media, I think it was the right decision.
While we originally set up the channel for family and friends to foll...
This blog it's all about finishing off the Gulf of Patras and going through the Corinth
Canal heading around to Epidavros and finally bringing the boat to Aegina.
There's always a few maintenance issues and on this passage it was the toilet - or heads!
We...
This footage is from a few months ago while still in Lefkas. It was missed out of our main Travel and Sailing BIG blogs due to lack of time, bandwidth and disk space!
We've uploaded it as a smaller microblog here because it raises important issues.
Wa...
In the last blog we left Woody to look after the boat in the Aegina and get on with maintenance work while we returned to England for a few weeks.
It's great the kids are curious and want to learn about maintenance work on the boat, but obviously it slow...
The last blog was about returning from England and Woody's experiences in Aegina - a visit to the Parthenon and witnessing a live sea rescue.
In this blog we leave Aegina and head down through Cyclades to Crete and beyond!
Our first stop was Russian Bay,...
In the last blog we sailed the Cyclades and finally set sail from Crete to Malta!
We picked up new companions at sea – migrant birds heading across the Mediterranean Sea from Africa to Europe - maybe housemartins, swifts or swallows - and they used the ...
Plastic Pollution is the buildup of plastic products in the environment that adversely affects wildlife, humans and their habitats.
Lefkas (Lefkada) is an amazing island on the west coast of Greece. We lived here on our boat surrounded by wetlands and sa...
After a tow into Malta in the last blog we woke to find ourselves surrounded by super yachts in the most expensive dock in Malta - Grand Harbour Marina.
We quickly checked in, bled the fuel lines, fuelled up and limped around the corner to Creek Marina â€...
It was another one of those epic passages with a ripped headsail and near misses with unidentified vessels in the night - a bit disconcerting with reports of refugee boats around the Libyan coast. But it was exciting sailing to a completely new continent e...
* Update July 2019. We have had reports of stolen antifoul and severe malpractice since our visit to Port de Peche. Ryadh [21:25] https://www.facebook.com/BoatYachtServices/ has since set up his own business and we would only recommend contacting him for w...
Kelibia was the last port of call in Tunisia. Although it was sad to leave Tunisia, we weren’t quite as sad to leave behind the smells and flies of the fishing port. Although killing flies became a full-time sport for our youngest!
We’d been waiting s...
Marinas in Ibiza are expensive so the only way to get water is to pay for a 30 minute slot and go like crazy to get everything plugged in, charged up, filled up and washed down! The shops are further away so that means a trip on the dinghy and a walk up th...
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