Is not always sunshine and roses… It sounds so wonderful and in most ways it is. However, it’s not really a vacation because, living on a boat, we still have daily responsibilities like answering email, doing laundry, etc. Depending on where you are, and the weather, it’s sometimes more challenging. We always try to remember how lucky we are to be living this dream, but some…
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A Kite Surfer’s dream…
When you buy a sailboat, you look forward to using the wind for propulsion. However, there IS such a thing as too much wind… And that’s what we got recently. Depending on wind direction, anything from 8-20 knots is great (less wind is better if it’s a headwind, more wind is great from behind). This week brought really strong winds up to 48 knots and sustained…
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Hard to believe we’ve been here a week already. It’s flown by and so much has happened. As I write, we are out sailing…. Just the two of us. We’ve had lots of training (well mostly Anthony has been in training) on the sail configuration and components, docking, electronics, (watermaker, circuits, batteries, charger, solar panels, etc.) plumbing (i.e., how to empty the holding tanks for the…
Continue reading ...I Christen Thee…
Moxie! May her crew have fast, safe, and enjoyable passages wherever she may take them. Moxie was “officially” christened (named) on Friday, May 1st with a very nice bottle of French champagne. We are in France after all… Much like the religious christening ceremony for infants, boats are christened (named) for good luck and safe travel. This ritual has been enacted since the Greeks wore wreaths…
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It’s been a very busy 2 days. We’ve checked out of the hotel and moved our belongings onto the boat. That was a challenge because we were rafted next to an Outremer 45 and had to put our things on that boat and then pass it over to our boat – lots of up and down and over and under! And the bags all weighed somewhere…
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We’re here! After 2 long years (it was exactly this day 2 years ago, when we were here for the Boat Show). A lot has happened since we left London on Sunday, 4/25. We weren’t sure whether we would be allowed into France and have taken many different steps to smooth our path, but in the end, all immigration wanted to know was “where we were…
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We got our 2nd Covid shot on the 9th (in Grand Junction) and left CO on April 10th after taking 3 COVID tests in a row to make sure we had at least one result for a sample taken within 72 hours of departure. We arrived in London on the 11th and had to quarantine for several days pending further COVID test results on Day 2…
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We’re finally on the plane… OMG! We moved out of our townhome on March 29th, put everything in storage (including the car) and have been staying in a little studio hotel room for the last 10 days… No matter how much downsizing and packing we did in advance (we started in late January), we were still stuffing things in our pockets on the way out the…
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Welcome to Moxie en mer (Moxie at Sea). It's quite unbelievable that I'm writing my 1st post about our soon to be new home - Moxie! It's been more than 13 years since our last sailing trip and now we're ready to go again! It's been a long journey to get to this point, but I'll try to start at the beginning.... So, for the past…
Continue reading ...How it all started….
It started with New Hope (aka No Hope). Then came Sea Fever Sea Fever anchored in Stanley Cay, Bahama Now Moxie is our next home. We have traded land for the sea 3 times now as the ocean just keeps calling (Mother, mother ocean, I can hear your call....). There were no such things as blogs, or the internet for that matter, on New Hope, but…
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