This Rat Sailed

This is a post I started months ago but never completed. Arriving back on the boat I have found that this may be of some interest to those o...

A blog is obviously a form of social media. When I started the blog I did it mostly as a means to explain this crazy idea of sailing away to...

So, what do you do the weekend after your estate sale?  Well, in our case, we headed out to the 2014 U.S. Sailboat Show in Annapolis Marylan...

Sunday was the last day of our estate sale. We decided to do something we found fairly common in the estate sale business, we made Sunday a ...

Day two was a bit more organized than day one.  I started putting the signs out a full hour before the sale started...with an added note on ...

After getting to sleep at 4 AM, we awoke at 6 AM to prepare for the first day of the sale.  We make some coffee...a lot of coffee...and cont...

As is usually the case, by the time I get to write about an event it has come and gone and so it is for our estate sale.  But let me take yo...

Wow.  It's been almost a month since my last post...and I was sooooo planning on picking up the pace on the blog posting front. I though...

Mowing the lawn is one of those tasks I certainly did not miss when living on the boat. But, while I am here in Colorado, it has been one of...

Last time I mentioned how I had lost a few things and that those losses were good things.  Well, the good losses continue.  This past weeken...

It's Thanksgiving Day in the U.S., and we have been busily preparing to take possession of our future home afloat. While I don't gen...

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...

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

Among all the looking for a new boat, there was also an important step that I made a couple weeks ago.  I started getting rid of things sinc...

After the "how much will it cost?" question, the next money question people usually ask is "how will you finance this?"....

Just a quick post this time.  In my continuing research on the money issue, one of the best "answers" to the annual cost of cruisi...