This Rat Sailed

What is it they say about the best made plans?  Well, in the middle of my search  for a boat, life has thrown me a little curve ball.  A few...

Wasn't it just the other day when I wrote about starting to sell stuff in preparation for our move onto a sailboat?  Well, one exception...

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 ...

Day two began with us making a quick trip from St. Augustine to Jacksonville as a nice couple who recently bought a 39 ft Prout graciously a...

It seems like forever since we started looking for a broker to assist us in locating a boat.  We decided that this would be a good idea sinc...

It's winter, we're in Colorado, and I'm trying to find a buyers agent (thank you to those who suggested it) so we can purchase o...

This is a question I've been grappling with for quite a while now.  The middle of Colorado is about 1000 miles from the nearest ocean.  ...

There has been a book that has been mentioned on several blogs that I follow.  I finally got a chance to read " An Embarrassment of Man...

The final installment of the Annapolis Sailboat Show posts, here are the traditional mono-hull boats that we looked at. Included is our favo...

As promised, here is more information and impressions from the boats we saw at the show.  Remember we don't know a lot about buying a bo...

It's no secret that we really don't know a lot about all the various live-aboard sailboats out there.  So, what do you do when you w...

A little while back I ran across a blog that had a very similar story to ours.  A couple with no sailing experience that heads off cruising...

There is no doubt that many things will be different in our cruising life than it is now.  One is certainly cooking. Pork with Brandy App...

While pondering the question of "what would be a good boat for our plans" (and searching the web...looking at pictures and specs a...

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...

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...

Well, I thought by now I'd be writing about our "on the water" sailing lessons, but I've come down with a cold so I haven...

Sitting on the deck of the boat with a margarita in hand working on your tan...that's the life, right? I think reality may be more a...