Before kids, we took a break from our advertising jobs to spend a year sailing the U.S. Gulf Coast, throughout the Bahamas to the remote Jumentos Islands, then up the Eastern Seaboard to Annapolis, MD. Our home was a modest Aloha 34, named Kaleo (ka-lay-o). This time was meaningful, having built lifelong relationships and seeing part of the world in such a unique way.
This is probably the second most common question we get behind “Wait, you’re doing what!?!” The short answer is, to take some time to experience the world, to slow down, reset our expectations of things to come and enjoy the world that God created. For more, click here. To help give […]
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Today Matt picked up our new chart plotter, a Lowrance HDS-8M (displays marine maps, our location and programmed destinations). This was no impulse purchase as months of exhaustive research and navigation system design were key in deciding on the 8M. After several months of monitoring and bidding on eBay, we […]
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Labor Day weekend offered a great opportunity to get some cruising under our belts. We set out for Offatt’s Bayou anchorage on the southern tip of Galveston Island along with two buddy boats from our marina (s/v Pan Cogito and s/v Jolly Mon). Christie enjoying An Embarrassment of Mangos About […]
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We have so much to share about preparing to cruise but with working 100% at our jobs and 100% on or sailing Kaleo on the weekends, we’ve had little time to blog about it. We’re excited to say that Kaleo is closer than ever to being cruise ready! In the […]
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Our friends Jeph and Amy joined us this weekend for the 5-hour tour along the Houston Ship Channel to our home for the night at The Galveston Yacht Club. Here is our route as tracked by our Spot GPS tracker This mini-cruise was intended to hone our navigation skills in […]
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If the last post left you hanging, don’t worry. We returned to Kaleo last weekend to fix the unresolved heat exchanger issue. Earlier in the week, I took the original rebuilt heat exchanger to the cooling place that claimed to have rebuild it. After a quick pressure test, it proved […]
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Our friends Lacey and Jeremy recently joined us aboard for some sailing and to take part in our official renaming ceremony of Kaleo. Lacey and Christie prepping Chick ‘N’ Spuds for dinner By the end of the weekend they got a lot more than they bargained for as: Matt and […]
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We just spent a full weekend aboard where we gained greater confidence and even more excitement about our sailing dream. In short: We bought a great outboard motor for the dinghy and explored the waterways around our marina with it Discovered the Clearlake Shores Farmer’s Market where we found fresh, […]
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Fourth of July on the water is an event we really look forward to each year. Not only do we get an extra day off work to spend aboard Kaleo but we love to anchor out in Galveston Bay to watch the fireworks. Last year we had a great fourth […]
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