I thought we were done with boat work! Don't you remember all the hot, sweaty work we did before departure? What gives?
Well, in this video I install a new portlight, a new VHF antenna, wire, and transceiver unit. Sounds easy. It's supposed to be easy, bu...
We've anchored the Sandflea at the Bridge Of Lions in St Augustine. The current is strong, but our anchor is holding strong.
Aside from an absolutely ripping current running through the anchorage, our St Augustine stop was just great!
What a wonderful ci...
We've cruised our sailboat along the ICW all the way to Cumberland Island, the Southernmost barrier island of Georgia.
It's time to explore Cumberland Island - land of the wild horses - and to see if the cousins of the Carrot Island herd are as bloodthirs...
In this video, we take a break from cruising life to visit our family that has come to meet us at St Simons Island.
The good news - we'll get to visit our family one last time before we head to the Bahamas for a while.
The bad news - now we have to say g...
Thus far, we've sailed from Maryland to Tybee Island, GA.
I hate to say it, I really do, but our home state of Georgia has been the least fun section of the ICW for us. We've grounded 3 times, and had to be SUPER on top of our navigational skills to make ...
We've anchored our sailboat in Beaufort. That's Byew-Fert.
Now, to further clarify... Boh-Fort is a completely different place, and is in fact, in a completely different state... NC to be exact.
Moving on...
BEAUFORT, SC! Great little town. One great th...
Our leisurely ICW cruise aboard our sailboat has brought us to the historic coastal town of Charleston, SC.
Probably the nicest city we've stopped at so far, and absolutely the WORST anchorage. Good grief! Ripping current, trashy bottom, & dragging an...
Our Endeavour sailboat, the might S/V Sandflea has brought us to a lovely anchorage in Georgetown, SC. We drop anchor and go exploring.
Speaking strictly of the anchorage itself, its probably my favorite anchorage thus far. It takes a bit of tight maneuve...
After cruising our sailboat down the ICW for a days, we finally drop anchor at the ICW coastal town of Wrightsville beach.
This coastal town is certainly ranks as one of our favorite stops along the Intercoastal Waterway. Nice anchorage, wonderful sunset...
There's nothing quite like watching a bikini babe bathing herself in a bucket. Oh - the rare treats we experience when living on a sailboat.
Morning breaks, and we breathe a collective sigh of relief... we've survived the night-long onslaught of a billion...
After sailing the Chesapeake, and we begin cruising south down the intracoastal waterway, which is called the ditch, or the ICW.
From here, there are 1000 miles of "The Ditch" for us to navigate before we reach Miami. Still, there are so many great sights...
Solo climbing a sailboat mast is scary, especially for someone like me who suffers from acute acrophobia.
We've officially started making progress South!
So many things to learn along the way. It's amazing all of the little skills that need to be acquire...
The first days living aboard a sailboat allowed us to get accustomed to our new routine.
Also, we say goodbye to convenient transportation, we wait out what's left of hurricane Matthew, we go sailing for the first time all by ourselves, and we check out t...
We move aboard our Endeavour 32 sailboat. She's a 1979 32 foot sloop with solar panels, composting toilet, dinghy davits, and a Yanmar 3YM20 diesel engine.
This is it. The time is now.
Time to load up our things, leave town for the final time, and move a...
We paint the bottom, change the oil, install a bimini, wax the hull, and complete our list of boat projects in this vlog.
This is part 2 of our pre-departure boat work.
We spend another 5 days in Maryland working hard on the boat, and doing everything we...
There's a huge list of boat projects that we must finish before we can launch our Endeavour 32 sailboat!
Kick back and relax - this is a long video. So long in fact, that we're dividing it into 2 parts.
We spend a total of 10 days back in Mayo, MD gettin...
We travel head to Mayo, MD to check out an Endeavour 32 sailboat that's outfitting for extended cruising.
We really like this sailboat, and it seems to have really been taken care of and maintained.
Negotiations will ensue, contracts will be signed, and ...
This Pearson 35 sailboat has a very soft deck. MAN, if only we had known that before making this trip!
We travel to Washington, NC, to check out a Pearson 35 sloop. It's been described to us as being 100% ROCK-SOLID, no soft spots, completely refit, newer...
The Hunter 30 sailboat is a great coastal cruiser... and Tambi likes it.
In this video we make another trip to Florida in an attempt to find our perfect sailboat. While we're there, we end up seeing a Watkins 33, a Endeavour 37, a Hunter 30, and a Rival 3...
We travel to Savannah, GA to check out an Endeavor 33 sailboat that we found online. Sounds like it could be a real bargain, so we load up for a long drive to see what this sailboat can offer us.
Along the way we have fun as a family, meet some cool and e...
We go searching for a sailboat to buy in St Petersburg.
If you recall the last video... we struck out on the S2 9.2c. Great boat, but it was just too stinkin' small for the 3 of us to live on comfortably.
Being the unstoppable dynamic trio that we are, w...
Taking a S2 9.6C sailboat for a test sail in Crystal River, FL.
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We travel to Crystal River, Florida to inspect a S2 9.2c sailboat.
Who knows - this could be the sailboat we've been looking for!
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We'll share everything from how we are maximizing our remaining time that we are "landlocked" by working hard to earn as much money as possible, to ho...
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