This week Pete is building a nutshell pram. Hope you guys enjoy the process. I began to get a little more creative in my editing and just learning all the ...

By the way the music is by the Dunehoppers, a local old timy, Florida Folky bluegrass band. Check them out here: ...

House vs boat part two, let me know of more ideas and I will post a part three  Here is all the rest of information of where to find us! :) Want to leave ...

Here is part one of the differences between a house and a boat, if you have any more, leave them in the comments and I will make Part Two Here is all the rest ...

Norna is back in the water! We moved her over to a dock to start moving back aboard. Feels good to be home! :) Visit my website PaperSailor.com and maybe buy ...

We riveted in a new heart cypress plank into Nornas bottom. I wanted to capture some of the work Pete does, as he is a great carpenter and woodworker. He is ...

This is the updates on the paint and some of the fun stuff we are doing while the boat is getting tented. We used Behr water based house paint to paint the ...

We moved off of Norna for about a month in order to do some heavy work aboard. We needed to paint and varnish Norna inside. A plank needed to be replaced on ...

Here is the beginning of the haul out on Norna. We usually would haul out every winter with our wooden sailboat in Florida. We had a copper sheathed bottom on ...

This week was a busy one. We thought we would get together, record a practice music session and share a message of the work week aboard Norna. Here is all the ...

Hey everyone! Layla is a big part of living on a sailboat (that's our dog). Having her point of view is pretty fun, since she is a hunting dog. What to hunt on ...

Last weekend we had a yard raising party, I thought I would give you a little insight into how this is done. New videos are made every Saturday or Sunday, ...

I know a lot of sailors who work a lot on their boat. Lately we have had a lot of things break, and need redoing, this is normal for any boat owner. The reason ...

This video isn't what you think it is, but I am glad you joined in on it anyway. You know, a lot of people are afraid of hard work, afraid of getting dirty and ...

Re Torque the Head Nuts After 25 Hours of Motoring This week I am posting two videos. This one is a technical video of replacing a head gasket on a Perkins ...

This week I will be posting two videos. One will be a technical video of replacing the head gasket on our Perkins 4107, and this lovely video. :) Here is all ...

The question everyone has asked, both for themselves if they liveaboard, and from others who don't. Why do we live on our (sail)boats? I ask these questions ...

Poor Pete, busy splicing rope, and we decided to have a little fun during it all... you know... gotta have some fun somehow. We also had just bought our VW and ...

Gotta find a little humor in sailing. It can't all be serious... can it? Here is all the rest of information of where to find us! :) Want to leave a tip? ...

For those who may not know the basics to a boat, here is a draw our boat tutorial. I may do a few spins off of this as I go so keep an eye my friends! Here is ...

Weather can be a big factor in boating, keeping an eye on storms and winds can make or break any row into shore. I wanted to show some of the weather we ...

Episode 9, here I am beginning to understand the hardships of videoing with just an iPad. We needed to fix our dinghy davits because they had some rot in them ...

Episode 8, enter Ava and Pete. Ava is Pete's daughter, and I am her step mother, she was about 7 or 8 in these videos. I wanted to show what kids can do aboard ...

Episode 7, I had captured videos of jerry jugging water while living on the hook, and wanted to show how much is done to conserve water, especially when each ...