Sailing Roam
👋 Hi, we’re Geri 👩🏻⚕️(a retired nurse) and Shawn 🤓 (a not retired technologist). We’ve gone on the greatest adventure of our lives instead of living the comfortable and predictable suburban world we left behind. Living aboard Roam, our cruising catamaran, we explore and immerse ourselves in new cultures, do boat repairs in exotic places, and get up to all kinds of shenanigans. Roam isn’t just the name of our boat, it’s kind of a philosophy. We’re not taking the shortest routes or using a formula to sail around the world. We’re not in a hurry either. We’re meeting the people, seeing the places and getting distracted by things we find interesting along the way. We’re unconventional and we’re living the best life we can imagine! Join us as we turn our 11-year old catamaran into our perfect adventure platform and see what’s over the next horizon. We can’t wait to meet you wherever you are! Clamptite Tools link: https://clamptitetools.com/?sld=syroam 10% discount: gerischaffer10
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We Bought $150,000 of Boat Gear for $50,000. Ep.76 #sailingcatamaran
How much can you really save by importing boat equipment directly from China? For our refit of ROAM, we decided to look beyond traditional marine suppliers and source a number of major components directly from Chinese manufacturers. The results were far more significant than we expected. For the s...
The Realities of Living at Anchor | Solving Everyday Boat Problems Ep. 75 #boatlife
Life at anchor isn't always about sailing. Sometimes it's about solving the everyday challenges that come with living aboard full-time. In this episode, we've settled into one of our favorite anchorages in Spa Creek, Annapolis, and we're tackling three very different problems—ea...
Everything Started Breaking… Welcome to Our Shakedown Cruise
We knew the first few months after leaving the boatyard would be a shakedown cruise. After rebuilding nearly every major system aboard ROAM over the last two years, we fully expected to find bugs, experience a little "infant mortality" with new components, and spend time fine-tuning every...
We Finally Left the Boatyard… Here’s What 2 Years Taught Us. Ep. 73
After two years on the hard, countless projects, and more than a few unexpected setbacks, ROAM finally leaves the boatyard. This is the moment we've been working toward since the day we hauled out what we thought would be a simple six-month refit. Two years later, we're motoring—and saili...
2 Years Later… ROAM Is Finally Back in the Water Ep. 72 #sailboatrefit
Two years ago, we hauled ROAM out of the water expecting a six-month refit. This week, we finally put her back where she belongs. Getting to splash day wasn't nearly as straightforward as we'd hoped. In fact, we were supposed to relaunch two weeks earlier—until we discovered a critical mi...
We Built Our Own Lithium Battery Bank (And It Was Way Harder Than Expected) Ep.71 #sailboatrefit
After years of planning, researching, sourcing parts, and redesigning, we're finally building one of the most important systems on ROAM: our DIY lithium house battery bank. Instead of purchasing pre-packaged marine batteries, we imported individual 2.3-volt lithium cells directly from China an...
3450W of Solar Power on Our Off-Grid Catamaran Episode 70 #sailboatrefit
After two years of planning, fabricating, redesigning, and chasing down welders, our sailboat finally has a massive new solar arch—and we couldn’t be happier with how it turned out. In this episode of our catamaran refit, we install a custom stainless steel solar arch capable of supporting 4 x 575W...
Clamptite for the WIN! #sailboatrefit
We've exchanged our traditional hose clamps for custom stainless steel wire clamps made with the Clamptite Tool. It's a gamechanger. Now we only carry a tool, a roll of heavy wire, and a roll of light wire, and a select few traditional hose clamps for places where the tool just won't ...
Last Day??? #sailboatrefit
One thing you can count on is the boatyard changing the plan with no notice whether you're ready or not. We were supposed to splash tomorrow morning, and instead they're putting us in at 6pm with the evening high tide. We still have a lot to do, so that's not welcome news. But first, ...
2 Days and counting #sailboatrefit #cromox #anchoright
So many jobs, so little time remaining. Tomorrow we're being lifted on the trailer to put the rudders back in, so tonight is it. The last critical pieces must be done tonight. We'll sleep when we're dead! There is a ton of stuff under the boat that must be moved to make room for the t...
3 Days and Counting #sailboatrefit
It's getting down to the wire...will we make our deadline? You'll get two different answers depending on which one of us you ask! Today we're continuing work on the solar arch with a little something "extra"! And at night we're making progress towards installing the ele...
4 Days and Counting #sailboatrefit
Time is quickly ticking down and it's raining. Most of our remaining critical projects are outside, so we spent the day working on anything we could do indoors. As soon as the rain stopped, after dark of course, it was back to trouble shooting the windlass. That one MUST be done.
5 Days and Counting #sailboatrefit
One of the remaining critical projects is wiring the wiindlass controls. What should have been a 1/2 days effort took the entire day, half the night, and still didn't quite work. Some projects are more frustrating than others.
6 days and counting #sailboatrefit
We got a lot accomplished today, and it's a good thing because we're only 6 days from splashing! Shawn commissioned the Victron gear which means we have AC power! That means our appliances work! We also started to pretty up the boat before she goes back in, and after an entire day of work,...
7 Days and Counting #sailboatrefit
We're running out of time, but today the helm controls are in and programmed. Does that mean we're ready to go? Not quite yet...
8 Days and Counting #sailboatrefit
8 days lift until we splash and we're wrapping up a bunch of miscellanous projects...cut stainless for bimini frames, prep helms for new electronics, install a new muffler and more.
9 Days and Counting… #sailboatrefit
We have 9 days left on the hard, and today we're putting the steering back in place. Mistakes were made...
10 Days and Counting #sailboatrefit
With only 10 days before we splash we have two big goals...power up the galley from the batteries and get the solar panels installed. One went great and the other was a dismal failure...
11 days and counting #sailboatrefit
With only 11 days before we splash, we MUST get the solar panels wired and mounted! We have 4 panels and 7 lights to wire up, and it's a lot harder than we expected. Ooof!
12 days and counting! #sailboatrefit
With 12 days to go before splash, it's time to test the engines. It required a bit of trouble shooting, but we're up and running!!
13 Days and counting! #sailboatrefit
With only 13 days to go, we need to STOP having sad surprises. This time the fix requires a very questionable decision with a high likelyhood of either injury or catastrophic damage. And somehow it worked! CRAZY!!
Send us your good vibes…please! #sailboatrefit
We are inside two weeks until we splash, so no new long-form video this time. We'll be giving you daily updates in short format, so check it out! So many project, so little time...
14 Days ’til Splash Day #sailboatrefit
Closer and closer to putting Roam back in the water. Even through colds and injuries, the work continues. Today's jobs featured welding the new solar arch, and cutting out the new helm station fronts to mount the electronics. One step closer to sailing!