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Outback Water Filtration – Part 2

  • By admin
  • July 14, 2022
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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

  • By admin
  • July 7, 2022
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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

  • By admin
  • December 12, 2020
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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)

  • By admin
  • April 22, 2020
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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

  • By admin
  • February 19, 2020
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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

  • By admin
  • November 14, 2019
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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

  • By John Casey
  • March 14, 2019
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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

  • By John Casey
  • February 17, 2019
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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

  • By Christa Greer
  • February 15, 2019
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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

  • By John Casey
  • February 13, 2019
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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

  • By John Casey
  • February 11, 2019
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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

  • By John Casey
  • February 9, 2019
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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

  • By John Casey
  • February 7, 2019
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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

  • By John Casey
  • February 5, 2019
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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?

  • By John Casey
  • January 25, 2019
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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

  • By John Casey
  • January 1, 2019
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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

  • By John Casey
  • November 12, 2018
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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

  • By John Casey
  • November 8, 2018
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Nine Brits rescued after lightning strike sparks boat blaze off Thailand www.thesun.co.uk  

PADI Digital Underwater Photography

  • By John Casey
  • November 5, 2018
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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

  • By John Casey
  • October 12, 2018
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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

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