The 2 year anniversary of our blog.

As strange as it may sound sometimes invoices are a good thing, and here is why: today the bill from our hosting company came as a reminder. In fact, two years ago we started this blog. Indeed, time flies! It is not just a statement and I think we are having fun because, we certainly [...]

AIS saga and a different vision of life.

Testing your equipment is crucial, and once again we are happy to prove it for you. After a “successful” installation of the AIS, the most recent visit was dedicated to tidy up the set-up and testing.

The Pro AIS software was hooked up and showed everything performing 100%, the three different websites were launched [...]

We crossed path with the Queen of sails.

During our life more often than not it is special moments that shape our destiny and our vision on life. It is such a good fortune to cross path with great individuals or an organization that will open your mind, and to be able to live a moment or through a crisis. Those define who [...]

Motivation by the bucket load.

How do you stay focus/motivated?  That is a question we often get,  and for some it may be harder than for others.

To illustrate this allow us to demonstrate :  We work and deal with the public, at this point some of you may relate and smile at this one. Thus we feel fortunate [...]

A few words on how to self-teach “Patience”

The answer to this one for me is easy: Buy a boat. By nature on a boat everything is slowed down, from your speed to doing the dishes to observing nature. We take time to enjoy every minute of our days and everything from now on becomes an exercise: *V* is patient naturally and very [...]

Just away for a short while: Gone on a fairly short cruise in the air!

Sorry for the silence in the last few days, but there is a good reason! Indeed, *V and I* are flying to go surprise my Dad’s 70th birthday and in order to keep it really secret we have to remain silent from the blog!!!

It is also a pretty cool excuse to take some [...]

The blues of getting back to reality…

During conversations with cruisers we often hear that it takes a good year to get your mind off work, schedule and professional attire so you can get into a cruising mode. You need that time to allow yourself to let go, and not feel guilty, to not follow a schedule and live with the daylight rhythm… [...]

Defender order desk must have Monty Python training staff.

Excitement was in the air, our order had arrived! We had ordered a  halyard for a future spinnaker, and in order to carry a spare “shroud” and bosun chair safety line. But a little mix up happen, the following lines are a summary of my conversation.

Me: Hello would you please look  up the  order [...]

You know you are in a Dreamer’s house, when…

In the entrance of the neatly arrange condo, you discover metal cable (life line for the pros), gasoline canister and various items in transit peacefully displayed… and no-one complains about it!

You spot a pile of book in the entrance way, and only nautical theme books are available. The only [...]

The tools and knowledge we hope to never use.

An amazing paradox, when you really think about it. We are spending money and time, on something we hope to never use. Do we want to take the head off and replace the piston, not in my book? But on the flip side Murphy (‘s law) will come and bite us, if we don’t know, [...]