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Boat Update

Hey guys! This is Heidi, the oldest kid on the boat. I am in 8th grade and enjoy many outdoorsy activities including hiking, backpacking, camping, swimming, snorkeling, yoga, and of course, sailing. One of the most frequently asked question I get is, are you excited? And yes, I am super excited to begin our adventure. I can’t wait to explore new cultures, see lots of marine life, and most of all, get to spend time with some of my favorite people 24/7.

For the update part of this post, I wanted to inform y’all that we have found a boat! After looking at a few other catamarans, we settled on a beautiful 37 foot cat. We are all super excited to get ready to move onto our 3 cabin home. The boat has 2 heads(bathrooms), 3 cabins(bedrooms) and a nice kitchen area and a small table inside and another table outside. The boat also has a small trampoline at the front of the boat that I’m sure my sisters and I will enjoy.

Anyway, I just wanted to say hello and introduce myself to this blog site. I hope that you are having a spectacular day and I will hopefully be back soon with some more good news!

“Mother Mother Ocean, I have heard your call.”
― Jimmy Buffett

That’s all for now,
Heidi

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Come sail away…

I am writing to share the news of our family’s upcoming sailing adventure.  Mark and I have dreamed of and are planning to sail around the world when we retire.  However, we have recently decided to bump up our departure date and sailing plan to include our girls…not around the world (at this time) but for a 2 year stint through much of the Caribbean—leaving from Florida this November and returning to Wilmette for the fall of 2019.  We hope our journey will take us south through the Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, Haiti, Dominican, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, St. Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and down to Grenada.  From there, we plan to head back north by way of Trinidad, Venezuela, Panama, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, and back to Florida.  I’m sure our plans will change a hundred times before we return home (and likely before we even head out).  I am looking forward to many new adventures sailing, boat schooling, learning about new cultures, and living a different lifestyle.  We are still learning lots about the best ways to stay in touch, where to blog, packing lists, food lists, boat parts lists, and things we don’t even know about yet.

So, if your children come home and tell you that Heidi, Lucy, or Sally is going on a sailing trip—we are!  We look forward to a new and different lifestyle camping on the water.  The girls will all be learning how to sail, how to stand watch on ocean passages, how to fish, how to wash laundry in a 5 gallon bucket using seawater, right along beside us.

In the meantime, we are purging all kinds of household stuff, looking for renters, thinking about property managers for our house, inexpensive storage units, etc.

We look forward to sharing more as we get closer.  And, we would love to have visitors and/or meet up with friends along the way.  Now, to find a boat…