Living Aboard A Sailboat

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Sailing: Rodriguez Key to Marathon

It was time to move on. The next leg of the journey was to head from Rodriguez to Marathon, a few miles further down the Keys. Straight line the trip was just under 50 miles but the day I chose to leave was light winds so it would be another slow sail. In studying and reading about this lifestyle all the forums and books focus on what to do in extreme storms and high...

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Hurricane Irma

What a stressful couple of weeks. Both the boat and I pulled through Hurricane Irma without issue, but I used up a whole bottle of Tums. Since I’ve become a boat owner in Florida, I get the NOAA hurricane reports sent to my Facebook feed. I watched Irma, with concern, as it moved from the open Atlantic towards the Caribbean. Unfortunately for me, my hands were...