Fuel, power, and water are the three things we constantly need to manage — aside from the weather, which we can only monitor. Fuel and power will be the subjects of another blog post. Today, we will share our insights on water management with you. We think of water management in three components, ...
Ahoy, mateys! Ever been excited about a shiny new toy and then found out it had a couple of screws loose? That’s kind of what happened when we took our 2022 Highfield Classic 360 for a spin. This dinghy, which we dropped a cool $18,124.73 on, turned out to be a mixed bag of ...
We previously had poor interactions with Victron support, but we were tied up to a dock somewhere in the past. This time, not safely tied up at a dock, we were out cruising in the Ragged Islands and Jumentos when our new Victron charger started to cause issues. The population in that area ...
If you own a boat, you know how important your electronics are. If you are looking at buying a boat, you would expect any brand to be reliable but not so fast! On our sailing catamaran Seamlessly, we had fairly new Raymarine navigation electronics, and on our new trawler Patience, we have Garmin ...
Our last boat, a 60-foot sailing catamaran, was also our first boat. It was quite the learning curve for us, and we did not know to appreciate the new electronics added by the previous owner in 2015. The update included new navigation electronics from Raymarine, a new Onan 21.5kw generator, and two new Volvo ...
It's finally time for this blog post. Those of you who follow our Instagram adventures have already seen some new trawler pictures and read the updates. We've been knee-deep in getting the boat ready for adventure and exploration but are now almost ready for departure. Goodbye Catamaran Life Our ...
We will update this blog post as things progress -- stay tuned. The Incident | Background | Analysis of the Cause | Temporary Fix | Evaluating Lewmar The Incident We woke up early in the morning, anchored in Thompson Bay, Bahamas, and got the boat ready for our sail up ...
Our boat ownership experience has been quite adventurous and insightful. Social media often makes owning a boat seem very glamorous and sometimes even easy, and depending on your attitude in life, this can be true. We have worked through two medium-sized boat projects so far, and this is the biggest lesson we learned ...
Also see: MutliTech Update: Anchored in Crystal Clear Waters... If you've been following our adventures on this blog or on our Instagram account, you already know that we are entirely new to boating. We bought our 60-foot sailing catamaran in September and decided to do a bit of work on her before ...
We are starting to accept that a 60-foot catamaran is a big boat, even though we don't feel Seamlessly is big. This is probably because it is our first boat and we have nothing to compare it with. All of our training captains, friends, marina-neighbors, contractors, and generally everyone else recommended that we should ...