Welcome to Sailing Big Lost ⛵ Follow our family as we leave our old life behind and build a new one at sea. Sailing Big Lost shares the real, unfiltered ...
There’s no one right way to build a life. This is what ours looks like. ⛵️ We’re a family of four living aboard our catamaran Big Lost and sailing the world ...
Meet the Hamills: A New Zealand family of five retracing a poignant historical legacy aboard their Fountaine Pajot 43 catamaran, Javelot.
Fiberglass Repair | There’s a Hole in Our Boat We've been waiting for the hulls to dry out enough for the fibreglass repairs to begin. It's a little like ...
“Somebody forgot to fill the gas up…” 😂 Thank you, Lily, for the status update. We were supposed to take the dinghy into town. Slight problem: no gas. So the ...
When you grow up living on a sailboat, adventure starts to feel pretty ordinary. Scuba diving, exploring islands, snorkeling, dinghy rides with friends, ...
We thought we knew what Caribbean adventure looked like… then we got to Dominica. This island completely blew us away. We chased waterfalls through the ...
Morning coffee while Isla sails along… then I pan over and find Lily living her absolute best life on the nets. ☕️⛵️😂 Some days aboard are chaotic. Some are ...
Some mornings don't need much of a caption. 🌊❤️ Calm water. A quiet anchorage. Everyone still waking up aboard Isla. Three years into this adventure, and ...
There was a time sailing across the ocean with our kids felt anything but normal. Now the sails go up, the kids head for the trampoline, and we just keep ...
Repairs Starts on Crash Damaged Catamaran Our crash damaged catamaran has been hauled out of the water. Now we can get a much better look at what we are ...
Living on a sailboat changes a lot of things… Iced coffee is NOT one of them. 😂☕️⛵ Just another delivery from the onboard mom café. #BoatLife #IcedCoffee ...
We’re sailing north from West Palm Beach and this time, we’re securing every drawer before heading offshore! 😂 With a glassy ocean and almost no wind, we ...
Our Monday, Wednesday, Friday workout routine comes with a pretty great reward. 😂🌊 Workout on the boat. Get hot and sweaty. Then everybody jumps straight into ...
Apparently we went crab fishing. 😂🦀 This little guy spotted the food on our hook and was DETERMINED to get it. Watching those tiny claws try to hang on might ...
There's something pretty special about heading home at sunset… when home is floating somewhere out there. 🌅⛵ All five of us piled into the dinghy, salty, ...
We got pretty comfortable in Tahiti. But this life doesn’t stay still for long. Today we're moving again — Tahiti to Moorea. ⛵️ #SailingFamily #SailingLife ...
Releasing Gallons of Trapped Sea Water from our Crash Damaged Boat | Rough Sail to Trinidad to Haul Out After winding our way through the Windward Islands of ...
ROUGH seas BROKEN eggs DAMAGED boat There's no use crying over broken eggs while rough seas batter our damaged catamaran as we continue sailing south through ...
School. Chores. Sibling antics. Video games. And then there’s handling the dinghy, climbing the mast, and learning to take care of each other. They’re still ...
At some point, the unusual became our everyday life. Laundry on the lifelines. Dinghy rides for errands. Homeschool wherever we happen to be. Kids growing up ...
She’s FIVE. 😂🌊 Lily put on her snorkel, dove underwater and casually did FOUR flips in a row while holding her breath. Meanwhile, I’m watching from above ...
We didn’t choose this life because it was easier. We chose it for more time together, more responsibility, more adventure, and the chance to build a life that ...
The ONLY CARIBBEAN ISLAND that still eats this!? We sailed our damaged catamaran to the beautiful Grenadine island of Bequia, where we're waiting for a ...