More than an adventure It’s become more than an adventure, it is now our way of life. We are approaching our 4th anniversary of life aboard Floating Home. What started as a one-year experience, now has no end in sight. This adventure has become our lifestyle. So why do we keep going? Jim and I …
Friday, May 30 we departed from our home port on the Bohemia River to begin our 4 day journey to Rhode Island. The first day we made it through the C & D canal, down the Delaware Bay, where we saw a whale, to Cape May, New Jersey. We spent a night at Utsch’s Marina …
Our new YouTube channel is off to a great start! Our initial videos have been viewed over 300 times! Our plan moving forward is to launch a new episode of “Our Floating Home” every Monday. In today’s new show, we describe the various systems, including plumbing, electrical, heat/ac and propulsion, that make it possible for …
Episode Three: The Systems that Run a Motor Yacht Read More »
It’s been over two years that we’ve been living aboard Floating Home. We’ve blogged about it, shared pictures & Insta-Stories on Instagram, and posted on Facebook. Now you can follow us on YouTube! Our channel has been created to show how we make living full-time on a boat work for us. We’ll show how we …
There are so many things to be grateful for. For instance, having that ‘nature call’ at 3:30 in the morning. It was 3:30 in the morning as I lazily got out of bed. I thought I smelled something a bit unusual. I began rubbing my tired eyes trying to figure out if they weren’t seeing …
I’m like a kid every time I see a dolphin come up for air! I stop what I am doing and turn my focus to these beautiful creatures. The biggest smile comes across my face as I wait for their smooth, silvery bodies come to the surface for another breath. One afternoon, while in New …
Have we found the town where we’d like to settle down? Did you ever dream of a perfect town where you’d like to live? The main crossroads near the place we’d called home for over 30 years had grown from 2 lanes to 6 lanes. Big box stores and subdivisions were popping up all around …
Our second trip south we felt a bit more relaxed and comfortable having a bit of experience under our belt. We safely arrived in Florida on December 2 where we will spend the winter. Good thing we had some experience with the journey because we came across a few challenges. We left Bohemia Bay Yacht …
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Two years ago when we bought our Floating Home, it was more boat than I ever imagined owning. It has two Yanmar 480 diesel engines, Racor fuel filters two vacuflush bathrooms, a 10 KW Generator and let’s just say a breaker panel that scared the hell out of me when I first saw it! My …
If you know us then you probably know our dog, Blue, too. He’s an 11 and a half-year-old 90-pound black lab mix, part black bear, part teddy bear. On April 2, 2015, we sadly had to say goodbye to our dog, Toby, a Beagle Bassett. We thought life would be easier without having to deal …
In our previous post, Everything Happens for a Reason, the changes in our planned vacation were described. We have created a video of some of the day’s experience on our youtube channel; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaIPZ3RPq_c Check it out!
Everything happens for a reason. Often you don’t get to know why things are not working according to ‘your plan’ until sometime later. Stephanie and I had plans for a two-day trip to Long Beach Island New Jersey to spend the week with her family who were gathered at a rented beach house. We would …