“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 ...
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 ...
Miles has spent years learning that everyone has a job when it’s time to sail. ⛵ Today he's helping pull out the genoa while we get Isla underway. One of my ...
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 ...
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 ...
This was NOT the Caribbean we expected. Sailing south through the Eastern Caribbean brought us to Guadeloupe—and what we found completely surprised us. After ...
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, ...
I was SO confident. 😂 Kasey was looking for fuel stabilizer, and I was positive he was digging through the cleaning supplies. “It's not in there.” Narrator: ...
Nothing is ever just ONE project on a sailboat. 😂⛵ Ashton headed up the mast to inspect the rigging and make sure everything looked good. Then, because ...
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 ...
What was supposed to be a manageable overnight sail from the USVIs to St. Martin turned into one of the hardest passages we’ve experienced as a sailing family. ...
Somewhere along the way, this became normal to them. 🥹 Barefoot. Salty. Piled together on the trampoline with nothing but ocean ahead. We traded the “normal” ...
Things I never expected to learn when we decided to live on a sailboat: how to make our own cushions. 😂🧵 Boat life has a funny way of turning you into a ...
This is what recess looks like when you homeschool. 🌿💦 A river fed by a waterfall, a jungle to explore, and plenty of room to just be kids. We’ve been ...
Brotherly love ❤️ Ashton and Lily swing dancing together in the salon aboard Isla is one of those little moments I never want to forget. We share a lot of big ...
No punching bag? No problem. 😂🥊 Tie a pillow to the halyard and apparently you’ve got yourself a full boat-kid boxing gym. Living aboard means getting ...
Nobody hypes Miles up quite like… Miles. 😂🎣 He hooked a fish and immediately became his own personal coach. The confidence, the commentary, the ...
Most kids have a swing set… ours have a bosun’s chair and a halyard. 😂⛵ Lily loves getting hoisted up the rigging just for fun, swinging above the boat like ...
When Grandma and Grandpa come to visit, there’s just one small problem… Our house doesn’t exactly have a driveway. 😂🧳 Getting people—and all their ...
Sometimes the greatest gifts aren't things—they're the lessons and memories that stay with you forever. ❤️ This week aboard Isla, Nana and Gogo join our ...
Every boat needs a rope swing… but somebody has to be the first one to test it. 😂 Ashton volunteered for the job, and honestly, this is exactly what having ...