Watch this video to see our top 10 boat life tips that will help to make your surroundings cleaner, life aboard the boat safer, and a few things that we do to simply make cruising life more enjoyable and easier. 10 Top Boat Life Tips Video Top 10 Boat Life Tips List – First 5 Make cleaning your heads shower tap easy – tie a bag around the head after filling it half full with vinegar. Secure with a zip tie, fill up with water so the head is covered in the water and vinegar mixture. Leave overnight. Save bag to reuse for the next cleaning. Clean your topside fiberglass with quick results – Get ..read more

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What’s it like to have the life of a sailing family? Every month to every couple months I do an update as to what our lives are like living on our sailboat. We’re now into year eight of our sailing adventure. Do we still love it? (YES) Have we grown tired of the beautiful white sandy beaches? (NO) Do we wish for four walls, carpet, air conditioning, fast food or modern conveniences? (NO) Watch our latest video about the life of a sailing family to check out where we’ve been sailing, who we’ve been sailing with, what extracurricular activities we’ve gotten into, a shark sighting, dinghy rescues ..read more

When sailing St Martin what is the best anchorage to visit? Watch our Sailing St Martin Video and then read our 13 reasons why our favorite spot to drop our hook is…(watch to find out)! Sailing St Martin – And The Best Anchorage Is (drumroll)  Sailing St Martin – 13 Reasons To Drop A Hook at Grand Case  1. Entrance into the harbor is easy and the bay is massive allowing for easy anchoring. 2. The seabed offers fantastic holding ensuring that your anchor will stay dug in so that you don’t drag. 3. The bay suffers minimal swell so the boat, wether it’s a monohull or catamaran, enjoys quite ..read more

We knew it was finally time to replace our Raymarine equipment when the LCD multifunction panels went black – we couldn’t read them anymore. Our two C90 plotters often failed to communicate with each other throwing up beeps and constant re-boots. The button on our autopilot often failed to work leading to hand steering and our AIS would sometimes send out data but we couldn’t receive boat positions anymore. It was time for a Raymarine Axiom installation. Heck – the system didn’t owe us any money. We got it to last for 18 years!  Watch the video and then read below to get more information ..read more

When a boat engine springs a leak it could be a failing gasket. Gaskets, or O-rings, are used to seal two engine parts together. Gaskets are found between the pieces and parts of an engine and are not difficult to fix. As a sailing cruiser you’ll often be forced to try and fix issues out at anchor or on passage. Thankfully, making a gasket is one of those jobs that is actually easy (provided you can get the part off)! A few weeks ago we discovered a leak between our thermostat housing and the main engine. Until the leak existed I didn’t even know what a thermostat housing was! That’s how we of ..read more

Since early 2020 it’s been difficult to know where to go sailing during Covid. We discovered one island that not only allows you to sail around but there are several nearby islands too. Furthermore, you can fly to this island with a negative PCR test and no need to quarantine. The island is St Martin in the Caribbean. As long as you have a negative PCR test you can fly in and sail. Or if you’re already on a boat and you want to sail to St Martin chances are that you don’t even need a PCR test at all. When we left Grenada at the end of October we simply needed to fill out a couple of online for ..read more

As a sailing cruiser, should you stay on your boat or go home for the holidays? Here are 8 reasons why Christmas is better spent on your boat.  Allow me to provide a bit of background first.  For the past seven years my husband (pictured above), daughter, and I have put our boat on the hard, or in a marina. We’ve done this either in the Mediterranean, Caribbean, or the East Coast. We have then flown ‘home’ to either the UK or America (Rochester, NY or Cary, NC) to spend the holidays with our family.  ‘Home’ in this context means the place where we have family/friends. Britican ..read more

Replacing your old anchor chain for new isn’t as straight forward as you might think. Use this New Anchor Chain Checklist to ensure you get the right chain for your gypsy. Watch the video and then read the more elaborate checklist below. Make sure to purchase our ‘Checklists For Sailors’ guide to get loads of blueprints for boating success. Check the guide out here. NEW ANCHOR CHAIN CHECKLIST Take Measurements Measure the pitch which is the internal length between the links. This measurement is important! A chain that varies 0.3mm per link can be the difference between it working well and no ..read more

Beach BBQs are a staple occurrence for sailing cruisers! Ensure your BBQ is great rather than good by using this Beach BBQ Checklist For Cruisers. As a sailing cruiser life often revolves around what beautiful sandy beach, deserted island, or little harbor is next on the list of places to anchor. Waking up to breathtaking views of deep and light blues split with soft white sandy beaches makes a sailor’s eye’s smile. And then there’s the thought of having a beach BBQ. It’s one of many examples of the perfect sailors day. We’ve had several beach BBQs that have been good. The weather was wonderfu ..read more