Will She Fit? | Docking Our 50 ft Cat & Provisioning Our Sailboat Ep.5
We bought a Leopard 50 catamaran, moved our family of six aboard—and immediately discovered our new home wouldn’t even fit at the dock. This is the chaotic reality of becoming a full-time sailing family.
After saying goodbye to everything familiar and catching a one-way flight to Florida, it was finally time to move onto our new sailboat, Banana Pancakes. But first, we had to navigate the Intracoastal Waterway, open our first bridges, squeeze a 50-foot catamaran into an impossible slip, unload an entire storage pod, survive a Florida rainstorm, and somehow find room for everything we thought we needed to sail around the world.
Over five exhausting days, we cleaned, organized, provisioned, discovered broken air conditioners and rusted tools—and somehow completely missed the fact that our boat doesn’t have an oven. We also learned that Amazon may be the most important member of our crew.
Moving aboard a sailboat isn’t always the dreamy yacht life shown online. Sometimes it’s sweat, storms, overflowing boxes, questionable purchases, family chaos, and trying to turn a massive catamaran into a home.
But little by little, Banana Pancakes started to feel like ours.
Join us next week as we finally untie the lines and begin our next sailing adventure!
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This is the REAL & RAW reality of living on a sailboat off-grid! Episodes come out every Saturday! Steve & Kami had a dream to buy a sailboat and travel the world when we retired. We spent 15 years working multiple jobs, living BELOW our means, saving every penny we could and investing in real-estate. Well the year of Covid hit and we thought, what the hell let's freaking go, kids and all! The first thing Steve said when he walked onto our boat "It smells like freedom!" We completed our first year of sailing, sold our sailboat Banana Pancakes, in hopes of purchasing a newer one. We didn't find the right boat so we headed back to Idaho. It's been 2 years since then and we are once again ready to go, this time for at least 5 years. We are currently boat shopping and plan on setting sail soon for Seson 2 of Banana Pancakes. So smash that SUBSCRIBE button & let's go!
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