This Rat Sailed

I wake up and look out the window of our hotel room at the surf breaking on the shore. Does it actually look a little better or is it just w...

My usual luck with weather from my aviation days seems to be following me to this new adventure. We awoke (several times during the night, i...

Sitting in seat 7A listening to some Jimmy Buffet and taking a trip that is starting to feel like a regular commute, we are flying back to F...

...try, try....try try again, right?  Well, we are yet again under contract on a boat. So, where we left off we had a decision to make bet...

Ironically within days of the last deal falling through, in addition to a couple boats that were already on our short list, a couple new lis...

Well, it doesn't look like we will be reaching an agreement on the Leopard 38 "Catzpaw " that we had under contract.  There is...

We didn't get back to the hotel in Marathon from our pre-sea-trial repositioning sail until around midnight. Fortunately, the reschedule...

So, here we are, our second attempt at a survey and sea trial on a boat that we think could be ours. We arrived in Ft. Lauderdale on what is...

Ok, one last set of videos for now.  This is the Leopard 38 we have under contract. This is the port hull starting in the forward berth (t...

Sorry about the lack of posts lately but sailing/cruising related subject matter has been in short supply. We've been waiting (hoping) f...