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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

We shifted gears this past weekend from all our recent projects to focus on time with family and friends aboard Kaleo (a welcomed change of pace). Crystal and Mel joined us for a weekend of road tripping (wouldn’t be complete without a pit stop into the infamous Buc-ee’s!), family fun […]

As Christie and I are learning, boat projects always take much longer than anticipated. But that means it feels even better when a project is finally complete. We crossed another item off the list with the final hanging of the companionway (a boat’s front door) doors. This project has been […]