Outback Water Filtration – Part 2
Now that the inorganic results have come back from the lab, here is the second half of our Outback Water Filter test I started last week with Part 1. The … Continue Reading
Outback Water Filtration – Part 1
The water source at our house is from a well. It had some of the best tasting water we have experienced until we discovered the high mineral content that was … Continue Reading
80° North: Sailing On Top Of The World
80° North: Sailing On Top Of The World is a great addition to your sailing movies library. It’s a new mini-series from SV Delos and 59 North that covers their … Continue Reading
Fun With Magnets (and Screwdrivers)
Regardless of how big or comprehensive your selection of tools is onboard, it’s hard to dispute that a good selection of screwdrivers is essential. If you’re wondering where to start, Bob … Continue Reading
(Even More) Boat Insurance
While we haven’t really been thinking about our sailing life, other than wanting to avoid the snow, I did receive a newsletter that brought me back to the fateful end … Continue Reading
Sailingmovies.net
I just noticed that we have not posted anything since March(!) when we were down in S. Florida, and now we’re surrounded by snow in mid-November…not in S. Florida. Since … Continue Reading
Weather Resources
Recently we had a great sailing adventure to The Bahamas with friends that own a Leopard 45 catamaran. We will be forever grateful to them for getting us out of … Continue Reading
Proceeds from Selling our Boat
This is the last post of our little financial journey through the ownership of our 2015 Leopard 44, LOW FLITE. In previous posts we looked at how to pay for the … Continue Reading
Provisioning Cost
In our previous post we looked at all those items we purchased beyond the large systems we had installed at the boat yard. In this post we look at how … Continue Reading
Purchases Beyond Boat Yard Work
In our last post, we covered our plan and budget vs reality for our boat yard work. In this post we’re looking at the surprising number of items that we ended … Continue Reading
Plan and Budget vs Reality for Boat Yard Work
In the previous post, we looked at the purchase price and admin costs associated with actually buying the boat. In this post we are covering what our boat yard work … Continue Reading
Purchase Price and Admin Costs for Buying our Boat
In our previous post, we looked at “how” we decided to pay for the boat. In this post we’ll cover “what” we paid, and we’ll try and cover all the … Continue Reading
How To Pay For The Boat
The decision to buy a suitable boat for living aboard or cruising will be a major financial transaction on the scale of buying a house. Whether we’re talking about a … Continue Reading
The Cost of Buying and Selling our Boat
As we sit in South Florida cowering from the cold and snow up north, we are fortunate enough to have some friends in the area with boats that are very … Continue Reading
What is a PADI Divemaster?
What most people know about Divemasters is that they were the folks helping on the dive boat or guiding them on their last dive in some exotic place while on … Continue Reading
Divemaster Qualified
On November 24th, I obtained my PADI Divemaster qualification after completing a Total Immersion Program (TIP) at Sea Experience, located at The Bahia Mar Resort in Fort Lauderdale. We had planned to install … Continue Reading
Fish Identification Website – Reefguide.org
We carry a few of these little Fish ID cards with us since we first saw them on a charter a few years back. ID cards like these are available … Continue Reading
Don’t Tell Mother! or Look What Can Happen With Lightning
Nine Brits rescued after lightning strike sparks boat blaze off Thailand www.thesun.co.uk
PADI Digital Underwater Photography
One of the specialty courses we take while on the Divemaster Immersion Program, is the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Course. I was looking forward to this as I have always … Continue Reading
Dive Master Course
Within our brief post announcing we had sold our boat, I said that we would take the opportunity to do something else. One of the something else(s) that I came up … Continue Reading