After two years of working on ROAM, we thought we’d be thrilled to spend our days fixing things, finishing projects, and getting the boat ready to cruise. ...
Annapolis, Maryland is one of the Chesapeake’s best-known cruising destinations—but what’s it actually like to visit by boat? In this episode, we’re putting ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Tired of ordinary vacations? Dive into the extraordinary with our liveaboard learn-to-sail experience. Witness the joy of our guests as they transform from ...
In this episode we say goodbye to our friends in the Bahamas and start the multi-day hop to Long Island, then Great Inagua to check out before the push South ...
Like living in a small space wasnt hard enough, add in a flood and weeks of rain to really test the relationship. We survive a East Coast Low onboard Popao ...
Despite our best efforts - Hurricane Isias is going to pass over us. Now that we are out of time to get out of the way, we are preparing hunker the catamaran ...
To finish a stage of the boat is a real motivator and the completion of the Fresh Water Tanks is exactly what I need to spur me on. Locking down one of the ...