Join us as we prepare for a last-minute passage to New Zealand before cyclone season begins in the South Pacific. We’ve had a memorable experience in French ...
Holly and Ray
We narrowly avoided several collisions during yet another storm here in the South Pacific, thanks to our tried and true anchor alarms. In this week’s video, we ...
This week, we savored our last day in Bora Bora. 😍 We got some boat work done while we waited for the weather to clear up, then took off in the dinghy with ...
This week, we continued trying to make the best of our time in the Society Islands: we endured our third termite swarm, encountered more bad weather, left a ...
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Lithium install + solar upgrade on our Lagoon 42 sailing catamaran! #boatlife #lithiumbattery #solar
Progress is being made on our KiloVault LiFePO4 battery install + solar upgrade today! Looking forward to completing this project… 🔋☀️⛵️
What kind of childhood leads a person to sail around the world? No one could have ever predicted the path that Joel and I have taken. Our families are still ...
Bums on a Boat
The first step to Sail Across the Atlantic Ocean is... farm work? Yep -- for us anyway! This is how we're saving up to get our old boat outfitted for the big ...
How we went from living paycheck to paycheck -- to cruising full time on a sailboat! You wanted to know how we're saving up to make major upgrades and get ...
Minimalist sailing and cruising for 5 years taught us a thing or two, and now we're going in a completely new direction... Introducing Bums on a Boat 2.0 !!! ...
Spending 24/7 with the love of your life is pretty great 💗 but there's a dark side that ALL sailing couples will understand! When you get so accustomed to ...
Love and loss... The plan for this episode really changed. We were going to share with you exactly what you need to have authentic travel experiences -- but ...
We're still in Long Island in the Bahamas! And today we decided to explore literally every inch of it. All 57 miles of it, from the Columbus Monument in the ...
Folsom Ocean Views
When we first set out on this journey, 2 years ago, we had always dreamed of sailing farther than we'd ever gone before. Well, today is the day we start ...
We are finally free to go where ever we want on our catamaran, but the wind has other ideas. We want to sail from Nassau to Long Island, but the wind is coming ...
After last week's big news - we are trying to get used to sailing in the Bahamas without having to worry about a 9-5 job. And as with everything in life, the ...
We've been sailing with full time jobs for nearly 2 years, preparing for the day when we could cast off the corporate life lines and start just sailing full ...
The Exumas in the Bahamas are known for their shallow water, but did you also know there is a lot of good hiking to be had? We sailed through one of the most ...
Sailing has become second nature, so we are diving further into the liveaboard lifestyle. Boat life is a constant struggle between what you WANT to do and ...
After one month of sailing in the Bahamas, we wanted to share EXACTLY how much money we spent. We tracked every penny from what we spent on big items like our ...
We are out of fresh provisions and need to go sailing into town to pick up a few more. The only challenge is that there isn't enough wind to fill a sail, but ...
Choosing the sailing lifestlye means that life doesn't ever go as planned and you just have to roll with the punches. We spent the weekend in the Exuma Cays ...
We are seeking warming climates and sailing to the Exumas this week in order to escape the constant cold fronts of the Abacos. Today, we are stopping in ...