Category: Boat Living

The question I most received from colleagues when I announced that I was resigning to go sail around the world for a couple of years was, “But where will you live when you’re not sailing?” On my sailboat, of course.

I refer to my boat s/v Blue Moon as a female: “she”, “her”. I attribute to her free will and individual character: “She likes to sail at sixty degrees”, “She doesn’t like when we leave her alone too long.” And

We live by sunrises and sunsets. We rise when the sun rises, and retire shortly after the sun sets. In between, we channel the sunlight to charge our (literal and proverbial) batteries. We (and our boat) are solar powered. I