Mid-Life Cruising!!!

  My birthday lunch .. always love being near the water! After arriving home towards the end of August, 2020 from our camping trip to Colorado, we wanted to remain cautious with COVID so w...

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Priceless times with our grandson in Colorado! After camping on our road trip to Colorado, we made it to our daughter's home in Fort Collins. Our daughter was due to have her second child an...

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  Okay ya'll, I'm gonna try to catch up from the past several months of  silence. So please bear with me while I backtrack to last July when we sold our boat, moved our belongings into our v...

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  From the Florida Panhandle to the Honey Island Swamp .. we're back in Louisiana! I took this photo from a friend's boat recently .. it sure does bring back memories of our high school year...

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Like always, a lot has happened since our last post in January .. A LOT!  Who knew that when we were celebrating the start of year 2020 .. a worldwide pandemic was brewing! Before I share m...

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Making friends in Puerto Rico! It's that time again .. a look back at the past year. Damn, it goes fast! So much happened in 2019 ... as with every year that passes by us. We wrapped up 20...

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After reviewing our blog, I realized that my last post was about our solar panel project . Since then, we actually left the dock in Louisiana! Leaving the dock wasn't easy, and realizing tha...

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As some of you may know, last year we tackled the task of installing a new battery bank of 315 amps on our small boat. With plans of anchoring a lot in the future, we needed a way to keep o...

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A short path that took us to a waterfall in Grand Lake, Colorado As I mentioned in my last post, we've been experiencing record-breaking heat in Louisiana. While sailing is a great way to...

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Keepin' cool on the water! We wake up each day making excuses for not tackling our boat projects ... our solar panels need to be installed, our Mantus anchor needs to be mounted, and va...

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Since arriving home from Puerto Rico, we finally made Nirvana a full sailboat again. For the first time in over 6 years .. we went sailing with both sails up! When we removed our sails some...

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Over a year before this installation, we ordered the Raymarine EV-100 autopilot for Nirvana. With plans on sailing long passages, we figured we'd take the advice of other cruisers and make ...

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We have no regrets in life, just lessons learned. We had some good times, but as much as we hated to admit it .. we needed to end our relationship. We tried to make things work, but it ju...

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Our piece of paradise .. just steps from the beach! It’s been a while since I posted anything, so I figured I’d take a few minutes to update ya’ll with what we’ve been up to. In my l...

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Wow, I can't believe we're well into February, 2019 and another year has flown by! I'm so far behind on my blog, but I don't wanna give up on my annual tradition of looking back on the past ...

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Sometimes we have to look at this quote to remind us not to give up. As anxiety creeps in, we get impatient and the "what-if's" take over. It's easier to be a pessimist than an optimist! But...

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After replacing our running rigging, it was finally time to pull out our sails & sail pack out of storage. If you've been following along, you know that we've been emptying our storage latel...

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Several years ago we had a new bimini sewn for our bimini frame. As with our Tohatsu and dinghy, our new Sunbrella bimini went into storage. Now that we were ready to remove our tarp and br...

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After replacing our halyards & topping lift with new ones from Cajun Rope, we were ready to get rid of the ugly, worn lines on the rest of our boat. The photo above shows our new lines on t...

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For the past year as liveaboards , we've been sleeping on our original v-berth cushions, along with a foam mattress that we had cut and a gel topper . While it's been much better than just the ...

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This is what it looked like when we added wiring for 12 volts! Living on a boat means constantly moving stuff, especially when doing boat projects. Ken had to get behind both settees, throug...

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When Ken & I thought of getting new batteries for Nirvana in order to anchor out most of the time, we had no idea how much there was to learn! Since owning Nirvana, we've had one starter batt...

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With my recent posts about boat projects .. and more to come, I figured I'd share a little of what we've been up to other than boat work. During the past couple of months we celebrated a few...

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When we decided to buy new halyards, we took the advice of several folks and ordered them online from Cajun Ropes . We ordered two "XLE" 3/8" halyards .. one red & white (112') for our MAIN...

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A while ago .. over 7 years to be exact (wince!) Ken and I purchased a new inflatable dinghy and Tohatsu outboard motor. We were excited about "our new car" .. little did we know how long i...

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