Exploring the world on a Vancouver 36
All things related to keeping our sailboat afloat and comfortable. Details about the maintenance and upkeep of the boat and all systems aboard.
Spending all our time tied to the dock has allowed us to catch up on our to-do list, so much so that we might leave here with nothing left to fix! Though Murphy’s Law will surely strike again, it feels good to have made so much progress on all the small things we’ve been putting off fixing onboard. Here’s a brief summary of what we’ve been up to here in Chiapas this month.
Continue reading “The List is Shrinking!”
This week we finally placed our new sails order. More on that soon! But now we have to wait. Six to eight weeks. In the meantime we continue slowly checking items off our to-do list. Will we run out of things to do before we leave here? I don’t think so!
Continue reading “More repairs among heat and humidity”
Having guests aboard reminded us again how much the boat needs regular maintenance. Monthly, daily, weekly. If not performed in time, bigger problems may develop. However, having visitors makes us want to go explore new shores and swim, snorkel, and paddle around.
Continue reading “The Sailor’s Never-Ending To-Do List”
This post is an update to an older post from before we cast off, called “Budgeting Expectations“.
It has been almost two years since my original post about our budget aboard Rua Hatu. After cruising for a while now, let’s review our spending over the last two years.
Continue reading “Our expenses as liveaboards (2022 Update)”
Certainly our journey through the San Juan Islands was a wonderful start to our adventures, but with nearly fifteen years worth of accumulated ablative antifouling below the waterline of Rua Hatu, the most recent of which was already two years old, we were in desperate need of a bottom job before we crossed any significant expanse of water.
Continue reading “Haulout in Humboldt”