Our nine months in St. Petersburg is coming to a close and it is time for a recap of projects we encountered during the last three months...

For cruisers it is pretty much ubiquitous that that paper charts are “mostly” taking a back seat to the myriad number of electronic...

Just a quick update to say that not much has changed in our plans, and we now have only three weeks left in the office and in our...

There are four weeks left in our apartment lease. The apartment is becoming sparse as today Jimmy has disassembled the television and...

So, while on the boat we will want to communicate with friends, family and other boats and vessels within the vicinity. This means we...

First let me say, all is well with Utopia and the Tallahassee area. However, we had a few nerve-racking moments throughout the storm....

The selling of About Time was an interesting process for Jimmy and me. Not only did we figure out the process of selling a boat by...

Jimmy and I just returned from a quick trip to Atlanta, Georgia. The weekend’s focus was to attend a concert, then we filled in the...

Over the past year I have had a few people ask how we get our internet while cruising. It’s definitely an evolving topic with the...

We are 10 weeks away from the end of our apartment lease and have started to downsize, again. This is where things are getting real; real...

I am all for sharing mistakes Jimmy and I make as we venture into the cruising world. Some of these may seem obvious but reflecting on...

Never knowing what to call it…black water, sewage? I think black water gets the point across. Not as complicated as the water supply...

In April we posted a list of projects we had done during our first three months in St. Petersburg and now it is time to capture projects...

Throughout our 5-year plan schedule to transition from full time work to full time cruising we have had many opportunities to “bailout”. ...

To kick this series off I want to go over all the pieces and parts of Utopia's potable water system. From tankage, water procurement,...

This was an article I wrote for the Florida Water Resources Journal (February 2023) and thought it would be fun to share it here. People...

Over the next several weeks I am going to be doing a detailed overview of each of our boat systems. A lot of these systems are something...

As mentioned in Small Plans Become Big Plans , it was in 2019 that Jimmy and I had decided we want to move forward with full time...

Departure The Yacht Rigger had completed the work on Utopia , so she was ready to move back to her slip over at the Harborage. We planned...

When one thinks of the worst thing that could happen on your boat, many would say falling overboard underway, encountering a hurricane or...