Adventure on the Horizon.

This will be the year my wife and I retire from our teaching careers and hopefully move aboard. We have no detailed plans other than heading to the Bahamas this winter and possibly spending the following summer in the Boston area.  It is exciting, and I have been spending money like water to get the boat ready. It is good we are moving aboard as my creditors won't be able to find me. Big projects include a cockpit enclosure, and a new head sail, but the basement is also filling up with all the gear I have purchased. What do you need for such an extended voyage? Well, the situation reminds me of teaching. You can pour every waking moment and all the funds in the world into a classroom and it still has needs that are not met. I seem to be applying the same concept to my boat.


So what are we focusing on? Primarily the necessities.

• Electricity and it's storage.
• Food will be scarce and expensive. 
• The boat will spend two years in salt water.
• Fresh water will need filtration and purification.
• Fuel will be important and of questionable quality.
• Safety, Safety, Safety. 
• Navigation.
• Fun and comfort, just the necessities ;)

If you follow along, I will touch on all the technologies and products I have chosen on this blog in the hope of helping others who share the same dream. For now though, I believe our mailwoman is beginning to suspect something is up. She must think that either I have a shopping addiction (possibly true) or that I am hording for a potential apocalypse. She stops every day along with the UPS and Fedex drivers. They smile, but look at me a little funny.