WHAT THE INTERNET REALLY NEEDS IS ANOTHER SAILING BLOG!

Said no one, ever.

Back in 2008 when I started our earlier Blog, my intention was for it to be a way for me to chronicle a special time in our life as a family. Unlike some internet Blogs, ours was intended for an audience of family, friends and of course, ourselves only. 

I started writing about a year before our planned departure date, so I included some background info on our previous boats in the “BK” years (before kids), as well as our first time living aboard and cruising. As we got closer to our departure date there were a few entries dealing with the specifics of cruising, but nothing along the lines of advice, insight and technical information provided in many of the blogs out there right now.

Again, the target audience was very specific; family and friends.

That being said, 5 years later we are at over 14,000 hits! 

Now I am sure many of those are, of course, our intended audience. Another large percentage will be people who accidentally came across the Blog during a Google Search. And since I haven't made any new entries in 4 years, I think anyone that might have followed us regularly has probably given up on us by now.

But maybe, just maybe, there were some people out there that were actually interested in what I was posting and what we were doing?

Anyway, I'll go with that.

So while the main purpose of this newer blog is to again chronicle a new chapter in our life, I do intend to cover topics that might appeal to more than just ourselves, our family and our friends.

While there are a wide variety of sailing blogs written from various perspectives (ie: “Cruising With Kids”, “Cruising in Retirement”, “Working and Cruising” etc...) I hope that this Blog will cover more than just one aspect cruising.

Lisa and I cruised on our first boat in our early 30's, no kids, just the two of us.

We then took a hiatus, got Lisa knocked-up and produced two crew-members who we then cruised with as a family.

Our crew are now getting older (Delaney is now in High School, Mitch will be in another year), so Lisa and I are entering a new phase in our lives. We are looking towards the day when we can sell the house and return to the live aboard and cruising lifestyle.

Mitchell & Delaney, NC38 "Fair-N-Sea", 2002

We didn't circumnavigate. We weren't out for years on end. We didn't totally re-fit a boat.

We did live the lifestyle, not once, but twice. And each of those times was at a different stage in our lives. And now we are getting ready to do it again.

Just as in raising kids, there is no “perfect way” to live and travel on a sailboat.

Go before kids , with kids or after kids?

Full-time or part-time?

One year, 10-years or indefinitely?

Multihull or monohull?

No one has the answers to these cruising (or parenting!!) questions, and trying to provide answers will not be the purpose of this blog.

My intent is to simply document our past experiences and progress towards getting back on the water.

It would be great if any of this helps someone else along the way to realizing their cruising ambitions.

14 or 14,000 hits, it won't really matter, it's all good!

“Well, life is (too short), so love the one you got
'Cause you might get run over or you might get shot “, Sublime, 1996.