My love affair with the ukulele started a couple of years ago while living on a boat. It was an elegant solution for our need for a musical outlet, while spending so much time isolated on the boat. The problems that we needed to overcome were numerous, not least of which being the lack of … Continue reading
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The best suitcase I’ve ever purchased & why I’ll never buy it again
The balance between value and quality is one that can be difficult to reconcile, and sometimes, even harder to get right. When faced with choosing between an item costing $10 and it’s far superior counterpart that will set you back the princely sum of say $50 it can be hard to fork out that extra … Continue reading
Finding the Boat
Now we knew how to sail we needed something to sail. The search for an affordable ‘blue water’ boat was going to be long and difficult for a number of reasons. Firstly, we were constrained by location as we were in Southern California – not an area renowned for its huge cruising community. To be … Continue reading
Learning to Sail
In her last post Lacey talked about some of the reasons that have lead us to the make the decision to set out on this sojourn. Or ‘WHY’ we are doing this. The next very obvious piece of the puzzle is ‘HOW’. How two people whose sailing experience is limited to say the least and … Continue reading