Sailing Ohana

Travel is good for so many things… One big one is that it shows you how much we all take for granted at home.

Charter boats in the Virgin Islands get abused. Not all of them, but a lot of them.

This year is different from last year in many ways, but one thing definitely remains the same: Rebecca’s love of marina showers.

Check the hatches.

We NEED to take better care of Planet Earth and all her inhabitants.

(Almost) everything is better with feta or cream cheese.

Boat life: highest of highs, lowest of lows.

This is a song we hear frequently in the Bahamas…. It’s hilarious, and we can’t stop singing it on our boat: https://g.co/kgs/xAdGvS

Catching is more fun than fishing.

If you live on a boat, you will have bruises most of the time.

The “green flash” at sunset is real. It’s not a big flash of green light, it’s more subtle, but we’ve seen it several times.

Read the room.

Free drinks aren’t really free… You pay for them the following day. 🥴

Dominoes is a surprisingly fun game.

Toys can be tools, but tools are never toys.

Sailing terminology is funny, and if you don’t agree, you take yourself way too seriously, sailor.

When friends bring you stuff from home, it’s as good as Christmas.

Fast is slow and slow is fast.

If you have to clean out a clogged toilet drain pipe into the ocean and there are bull sharks around, they will aggressively eat the poop that comes out of the pipe. It’s the grossest thing ever.

We couldn’t live without our dinghy.

Be careful not to get near poisonwood.

When in doubt, wear your bathing suit.

A family of 4 with a giant dog can get by on about 15 gallons of fresh water per day.

If it has to do with a sailboat, it will take 10x longer and cost 10x more than you expect.

Number one Morris question is “what kind of dog is that?!” Number two is “how much fur do you have on your boat?!”

If you can’t tie a knot, tie a lot.

When you jump into the water from high up, hold your nose and point your toes.

Your boat name is important because people know you by your boat name (except everyone knows Morris).  Also, every time someone hails you on the VHF they have to say it three times, so you’d better like how it sounds. I want to name our next boat “Toy Boat” or “Unique New York”, because it will be hilarious to listen to people try to say it three times fast.

Don’t compare your insides with other peoples’ outside.

In the Bahamas, rum costs less than water, but beer costs as much as decent wine in the US.

The boat will never be clean. Fighting sand and salt water is futile.

The only time you don’t tie up your dinghy with two lines is when you tie it up with three or more.

Take care of your feet.