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Finally Making it to Spring after Living Aboard All Winter- Stoked on Sunshine!
Everyone knows that feeling of a never ending winter.. For us here in the Pacific North West, its not usually the snow but the rain that seems to keep falling. We live in a rainforest, so we get an incredible amount of rain especially from November to April. It can be weeks of rain until…
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Our Dream Boat Sold
Pav and I have been discussing upgrading our sailboat. We have had our 1984 32ft Cooper 316 Wahine X for just over two years, and although we love it and it has been a great introduction for sailing, we are ready for the next boat to take us further with the potential for more friends…
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How We Paid Off 100k in Student Loans by Living on a Sailboat
2 years ago, we moved aboard our newly purchased 1984 Cooper 316 32ft sailboat. It wasn’t our initial intention to pay off the 100k in student loans we had, or get serious about saving and investing. But as we found our monthly moorage to be much less than any rent we ever paid, my partner…
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Moving Past the Fear of Not Belonging: Why I Said Yes to Buying a Sailboat
Before we purchased our sailboat, walking the dock was intimidating to me. Pav and I were on a walk one day, and when we got to the Small Craft Harbour, he asked if I wanted to go down and check out the boats. Part of me wanted to, but another part of me, something in…
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