OK, I admit it. I am not Martha Stewart. I do plug in our little Dirt Devil on a regular basis and each time, I marvel at the amount of dust on our boat. We live surrounded by salt water. I suppose this is obvious when you write about living on a sailboat, but I [...]
We humans like our routines. It gives us a feeling of comfort – a sense of security in a chaotic world. When you live on a sailboat, you bend some of those rules but sometimes you can slip into complacency and before you know it you’re spending too much time at the dock falling back [...]
As I was walking down the dock one night, I stopped to admire the next set of storm clouds marching across the sky. The sun was setting and it was amazing to see that from the sky to the water there was a canvas of varying shades of blue. I stood there for awhile because I [...]
Instead of cruising this weekend we decided to stay home and get caught up on some boat chores, but the need to have some fun was calling so we went for an early morning dinghy ride before the city woke up. No city noise, just birds and sunshine… and then finally, on our way home [...]
I was reading Fishing with John by Edith Iglauer – a chronicle of a woman’s experience of commercial fishing on the British Columbia coast. Edith was an American raised in an upper class family in New York City when she met John, a closet scholar and commercial fisherman who trolled for spring salmon using traditional fishing methods. [...]
We usually seek solitude when we manage a weekend away in our floating home and this past weekend was no exception; our destination was Prevost Island. When our 40 hp Mitsubishi started coughing, we realized that we were low on fuel and headed into the closest harbor which was Ganges on Saltspring Island. The harbour [...]
Vanity is thy name woman! Arms stretched to their limit, bordering on becoming monkey arms from carrying too many groceries much too far. You squish as much as you can into your backpack but still – monkey arms 20 minutes later. The liveaboard lament. It seems that when you live on a boat you are [...]
One of the things that I love about living aboard is being close to nature. This morning on my way to the washroom building, I was met by these neighbours – several pairs of adult Canada geese with their offspring. How cute! Canada Geese arrive each spring and usually by May, family groups make the [...]
Big excitement yesterday for us as we replaced our rowing dinghy with an inflatable dinghy with motor. We now can explore areas around anchorages without fear of getting caught in tidal currents that take us in the opposite direction that we want to go in. Once we had the inflatable asembled and the engine primed it was [...]
I am a terrible sailor. I hate the wind. When it is blowing a gale at the dock and the boat is heeled over in her slip, it makes me cranky. Perhaps you can relate to this? You may have noticed other tendencies that seem to be part of who you are. Maybe you like spicy [...]