This Rat Sailed

I'm shocked I tell ya...shocked.  Was starting to wonder if this day would come. We may soon be the new owners of a Leopard 38.  The cur...

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...

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...

In the process of shopping for our future home afloat, this is a very common question on my mind. Of course, the real question I grapple wit...

...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...

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...

In my last post, I asked if anyone would be interested in seeing some of the videos I took of various boats during our shopping trips.  Ther...

Continuing with the idea of occasionally posting "things we've learned thus far" here is a tip we figured out while looking at...

Part 1 can be found here , part 2 is here . So as we ate an overpriced lunch at the marina in Miami (remind me not to hang out much in Mia...

Picking up where I left off in the first post on this trip... After spending some time on the Leopard, we then worked our way back up the...

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

I wish I had more interesting things to write about right now...like all the tasks of refitting a boat...but alas we are still searching for...

A few weeks ago I finally managed to post a question to the Cruisers Forum  asking for any thoughts regarding what we consider our top two c...

Feeling much better after the little medical issue (well, except for the whole health insurance thing and what "The Affordable Healthc...

The Thursday evening before the US Memorial Day weekend, on a whim, we decided to check out airfare to each of the locations where a Tobago ...

So, while I was in Ft. Lauderdale I looked at a Fountaine Pajot Athena 38.  It was a nice boat.  But 4 berths and 2 heads seemed like a bit ...

So, what do you do when a boat survey goes bad, your broker is unavailable, and you have  another day before your flight home?  Well, after ...

Catching back up to the present... On our flight back from Florida we had a lot of thinking to do.  When we were actually looking at the ...