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Top Ten Tuesdays: Ten Things that Make our Life Easier 27 Aug 2013 | 06:29 pm
The Grateful Dead once sang "'Cause when life looks like easy street, there is danger at your door". Well, I suppose there is some truth to that...but that doesn't mean that this family does things t...
Baby's First Hash 25 Aug 2013 | 08:54 pm
Things have been slow around here, I know. Lack of activity on the blog however does not mean lack of activity in life...in fact, quite often it's the opposite. We've been busy, working on ways to e...
Bedding with Butyl Tape 22 Aug 2013 | 07:56 pm
Leaks. They are, quite possibly, one of the more (if not the most) annoying malady to befall the cruising sailboat. If they are below the waterline, they can prove catastrophic (as in; your boat can...
Top 10 Tuesdays: Ten Things Freshman Cruisers Should Know Before Shoving Off 20 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Motoring away from our home port in Chicago for the last time September 2010 I was asked to write this post by a soon-to-be-cruiser for her series on The Monkey's Fist which is a site that collects t...
Rough Weekend with a Sick Baby on Board 19 Aug 2013 | 10:16 pm
Despite a fever, she still found the energy to help daddy re-bed a porthole...more on this later! Nothing puts a damper on a weekend like a sick baby. Poor little Isla suffered fever after fever (ra...
Making a Boat a Home: The Art of Decorating A Boat 17 Aug 2013 | 06:49 pm
Many of you write us asking what the inside of our boat looks like. I've got some older pictures posted on our "Boat" page, but - as I mentioned back in the British Virgin Islands - we have been doin...
Carnival, Homecoming and a Goodbye 15 Aug 2013 | 07:27 pm
It's been a busy couple of days. We enjoyed the final "pretty mas" parade, marking the end of Carnival and, as was the case for the first parade, Isla tried to get in on the mix. This child loves he...
Sleeping Beauty 13 Aug 2013 | 07:14 pm
We debated back and forth about whether or not to go back to the hotel last night. I was worried about a repeat of the night before, but in the end, after talking to friends here at the marina who pr...
J'Ouvert: (Up) All Night Long 12 Aug 2013 | 11:31 pm
So our plans to stay in a hotel in an effort to get a good nights' sleep completely backfired. Turns out, Isla's not one for sleeping on land. Or in a pack and play. Instead, we shuffled around tog...
Costuming for Carnival: Glitter, Sequins and Feathers, Oh My! 9 Aug 2013 | 05:56 pm
The word "carnival" might conjure up a whole slew of images depending on your experience; perhaps you imagine the tilt-a-whirl, cotton candy and a toothless pixie dust spreader....or maybe you envisio...
