Category: General

Who says instrument and autopilot installation is hard?

I suppose that depends on what you mean by “hard”.  For us, it was challenging to think through all the pieces and how to best install the system on our boat.  It was also challenging to squeeze into small spaces with awkward-sized, somewhat-heavy items.  Perhaps the most challenging aspect was figuring out how many fasteners

Two people, 3000 miles apart…technology miracles and headaches

Our goals for this trip were to get lots of things done on our “list” as well as learn as much as possible about our boat.  What to do when we’ve staggered our arrivals, and need to be communicating nearly real-time on decisions that were important for both of us to be involved in? Enter

Big, Big Day!

Hunger Games?  Anyone? Yesterday was a fine, momentous occasion.  Shearwater is now in the water and acting like a boat!  Ah, the smell of the sea, the sound of wind in the ringing, the gentle rock of the boat to the waves.  At least that is how I imagine it from my desk in Madrid.

Coming to America

Tomorrow Chris flies to D.C., rents a car and heads over to Annapolis.  She’ll spend the next 2 weeks working on Shearwater.  I’ll fly over in about 2 weeks to review her work.  Err, I mean to help her finish things up.  Actually, I’m just flying over to go sailing!  That’s right, after almost 6

Retrofit: Project 1.5 complete!

The fine folks at Yacht Canvas in Annapolis finished up replacing the curtains that will give us a bit of privacy while at the dock, as well as a couple of coordinating pillows.  All of the interior cushion work is now done, and if the pictures are a good reproduction of what the inside now

Reading material nowadays

I think that living abroad really does make you think differently about things and expand your horizons a bit, in all aspects of your life.  Consider magazine subscriptions… Ten years ago, I don’t think it would have ever occurred to us to consider getting a subscription to a non-US magazine to stay up to speed

Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink

It’s a funny thing being on a boat surrounded by water and having to wonder if we have enough freshwater to get by.  Alas, it is a concern, particularly if one plans to spends days away from shoreside facilities like while crossing an ocean, for instance.  For our purposes we have some decisions to make

Comments now working…we think!

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Shearwater when we got her…

In pictures…  

Welcome aboard!

We’re managing two adventures at once now – with the launch of this blog, we’ll be sharing the planning, outfitting and eventual cruising on our new-to-us J/120 sailboat, Shearwater. We continue to post about living in Europe on our other blog – lifeteria. Thanks for stopping by – please feel free to contribute by sharing your thoughts,

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