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There are a lot of elements to learning someone else’s systems. Electrical, water, gas, communications (comms), navigation (navs), and the list goes on. We’re learning so much about our boat and the former...

Attitude isn’t everything, but it kind of is. When you first get your boat, your used boat, you just want to go sailing. Sure, there are things that you want to change, replace, repair, but all of that...

Nan is the writer in the family.  I’ll occasionally have some idea pop into my head at some odd random moment while I’m busy fixing this or working on that and a story will start forming in my mind. ...

So… We live on a boat now. Or we almost do. We’ve put our home in Idaho up for sale and have bought a boat; a 52’ Island Packet 485, to be specific. I’m Nan, and with my husband, Ted, we’ve decided to...