A Family Afloat
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A Mom, 3 amazing kids (currently 17, 12, and 7), and an amazing Dad/Captain. We are currently intending to sail our boat around the world.
A Family Afloat
5M ago
Aotearoa (New Zealand) has 10 “great walks“, one of which is called The Abel Tasman Track. The Abel Tasman area is located on the north end of the South Island of New Zealand. The area is named after the explorer Abel Tasman, who was the first European to set eyes on New Zealand in December ..read more
A Family Afloat
5M ago
5 months after the initial lockdown from Covid, New Zealand’s borders remained closed to the rest of the world and all of it’s beauty open and accessible to all of those who remained within those borders. There’s not really much more to say about that. We worked, we schooled, and we continued to travel as ..read more
A Family Afloat
6M ago
New Zealand locked down her borders. No flights allowed to come in. The whole island itself was in full lockdown from the rest of the world and each county (Land District) was to remain closed to others. March 23rd we were picking apples at the local apple orchard and later that day we were notified ..read more
A Family Afloat
10M ago
As I started to go through pictures for this blog post that was intended to be for half of 2020, I realized a few things: First and foremost we have too many photos to share just for the first 2 months, because we did A LOT of epic things, therefore I needed to shorten the ..read more
A Family Afloat
1y ago
The second half of 2019 went on and seemed to do so quite quickly. We still went on our adventures, but it started to become just 3 of us, Christian, Taj and myself. Nina found her friends and she was at the age that she wanted to stay home. And Ellamae was back in the ..read more
A Family Afloat
1y ago
I’m not sure what happen to the blogging, or lack there of, while we spent life afloat in Aotearoa (New Zealand). Truth be told, I quickly lost touch with the romanticism of cruising life and lost motivation to write about what we were doing. I still, to this day, am not entirely sure what and ..read more
A Family Afloat
1y ago
https://www.coboatersblog.com/post/boating-directory-mariners-resources The most advanced Crew Finder Network for Sailboats and Powerboats I find this a really good resource for finding crew and delivery options. Check it out. PS.. I’m working on a post more about our time in New Zealand. Its funny how hard it is to come up with creative time to write when ..read more
A Family Afloat
1y ago
I realize that it has been a very long time since our last post and even more so since a last real update on our life afloat. We are indeed still afloat. Our life afloat, however, has transformed quite a bit since leaving our boat (Shawnigan) in New Zealand for sale, flying back and buying ..read more
A Family Afloat
2y ago
Click here to go to listing . Stevens 40 CC Pass along the info, she’s a very seaworthy, world travelling sailboat ..read more
A Family Afloat
2y ago
I know the suspense is high in finding out exactly what we’re planning to do next, but to be honest, we weren’t quite certain therefore we decided to wait to tell all. Are you ready for it?!?!?!?! We bought a new boat!!!! Her name is Malihini and she’s a Shuttleworth 35 catamaran. Yep, you ready ..read more