Hilton Head, Broken Windows, Nordhavns, and Savannah, GA

Ramblin Rose - Bow

Hilton Head was an unplanned stop. Given how things went while here, it probably won’t be another stop again. Unless we are on a different dock or at a different marina. If you haven’t read how we ended up here you can catch up by reading that story here. It’s not that that marina or staff […]

Window Into Our World

Part of the reason we chose Lagoon models later than 2005 was the windows. Cabins in the later models have a large picture window that keeps them from feeling cave-like. They brighten up the cabin and provide ocean views that one would pay big bucks for on a cruise ship. But they are not without […]

Thunderbolt and Lightning, Very Very Frightening

I hear someone say lightning and I used to immediately play the Queen lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody in my head….“Thunderbolt and lightning, Very, very frightening me. Galileo. Galileo, Galileo Figaro Magnifico-o-o-o-o.” Now, it’s a completely different response. I get a shudder down my spine and a cringe. You guessed it, this is the long awaited lightning post, where you […]

We Launched, But Are We Sailing Around the World Yet??!!

When we set our launch date as June 20, we did it based on the sale of our house.  We thought our boat would be fixed by this date after our lightning strike in March. We gave that date to the contractor dude… Have everything fixed by June 20. But the closer we got to launch day, […]

We live on a boat…

We did it. We have officially moved onto our boat, GIRO. WE LIVE ON A BOAT. We said goodbye to our two acres and 3100 sf house and almost all of its contents. We rented a 50 sf storage unit. And we moved probably way too much stuff to our 380 sf sailboat. (FYI.. If you are […]