This Rat Sailed

Ok, things are finally returning to what passes as normal these days and so I've managed to carve out a little time to catch the blog up...

I'm sorry.  It's been over a week since I've posted anything and I haven't been that slow in a long time. It has been just a...

Well, the plan didn't change in over a day, so it actually stuck. We left the anchorage next to Ft. Monroe for a marina we found that f...

I don't know how many times I've heard that cruisers plans are written in the sand, and I can't remember if I read it somewhere ...

Well, we really  need to be making our way north...but we haven't left yet.  The simple reason...we aren't quite sure where to go.  ...

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...

Sorry I haven't been posting much in recent days.  When I haven't been working my day job, I've been trying to solve a problem I...

But you would be wrong.  We've been looking for a boat for so long that you would have thought that we would have worked out a lot of th...

When I started this blog, the primary goal was to document our quest to become full-time cruisers so we could explain and answer questions f...

10 days on two boats was most of our trip to Florida, but we did have a few more days before we returned to Colorado.  Since we think we...

After looking at and talking with a bunch of sailing schools for our 3rd class (ASA 104), and suffering from a little analysis paralysis, we...

As mentioned in my last post, we need to decide on the class(es), location for those classes, and the type of boat we want to learn on for t...

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

In a couple posts I mentioned that we needed to take tests to complete our sailing courses.  This isn't really true, we only need to tak...

When we started looking at this sailing idea, I identified several courses that I felt we would need to take at a minimum: Basic Keelboat...