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Author: John Casey

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

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

Catamaran Market Report – Q3 2018

  • By John Casey
  • October 4, 2018
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Since we just sold our boat, we were interested to find a 2018 Q3 market report on catamaran sales and we able to see where we fit in the overall … Continue Reading

We Sold Our Boat!

  • By John Casey
  • September 19, 2018
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So there it is. We sold our boat. There are a lot of reasons why and we’ll get into them over the next little while. One reason was that we … Continue Reading

Lightning Strike Damage

  • By John Casey
  • September 15, 2018
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The tally is now in for the lightning damage on our catamaran. This covers what was verified, repaired and/or replaced. I’ll include some prices to give some idea the scale … Continue Reading

The Mighty Espadon Part Deux or Still Waiting on Boat Repairs

  • By John Casey
  • August 1, 2018
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Well, the venerable Honda 10hp that we got with the little aluminum boat lasted a grand total of 2 short trips before things started going wrong. But in fairness the … Continue Reading

Waiting on Boat Repairs

  • By John Casey
  • June 15, 2018
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Lucky for us the family cottage is still in the family, so we have a place to stay while we wait for boat repairs to be completed. The original cottage … Continue Reading

Sailing Magazines

  • By John Casey
  • April 28, 2018
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With some time to ourselves away the boat, I reviewed our website and found some dead links that needed fixing. A lot of them were on our Magazines Page. Almost … Continue Reading

We got hit by lightning – Now what?

  • By John Casey
  • April 25, 2018
  • 2 Comments

Lucky for us, we had insurance coverage (many people self-insure) and are now back in South Florida dealing with the inevitable repairs associated with a lightning strike. As it turns … Continue Reading

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