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I see, so if we look for ocean cruisers, we can hedge our bets a bit better.

What kind of boat selection would you make in that case? Would the length be something that you would be looking for, or are other features such as stabilizers, etc more of a consideration? I hear the waters around the Columbia River can get pretty rough, especially if I plan to make our way...

Oh yes, I can totally see how good habits, and ensuring everyone has a good time, could result in such eagerness! Good call on the “fun” PFD, I’ll have to find some that would peak my daughter’s interest. I suspect that we won’t be buying our boat until my girl is 3.5 or 4, since it’ll take...

Perhaps nomad is the wrong term, at least to start, but I see your point. We're hoping that as we ease into cruising (shorter distances at first, and venturing farther afield as everyone gets used to it more), we'll all increase our familiarity with it, and this will become "normal" to us. We...

Yeah certainly, that's the plan. We hope to get a marina slip in Vancouver itself (to be closer to the city) and treat it initially as a downtown waterfront condo that can occasionally go for weekend trips. As we get more experience, we'd like to venture out a bit more. It's nice to see our...

Yeah, in fact YouTube has been an extremely valuable source of information I find. There's certainly a great deal of information you can find on various blogs, product web sites, etc. However, getting the anecdotal "a day in the life" from the perspective of someone actually living aboard and...

Agreed BandB; I have a feeling this is the sort of thing we'll figure out as we go. Find a cadence that works for us, and balance life/work. I also feel it'll be more about setting our own expectations around time schedules, i.e. not having any. If we wanted to get someplace in a hurry, we'd fly...

Yeah that has been my concern too. Ideally we can do our work when in a marina, or close enough to shore to get cellular data. There are many things that we can do while offline too, so we might just schedule our work around that. We're not hoping to rush into anything, since our search for...

By the way, I'm not new to the Internet by any stretch of the imagination...through experience I just find it useful, when people ask for more information about myself, to be able to send them the link to my inaugural post as a way of introduction. If you made it this far congratulations, and...

Hello everyone, and thank you for (collectively) creating such a welcoming and friendly space for boat owners and enthusiasts to join together. I'm typically one to "lurk" on forums as a part of my boat search/research process, but I felt the time was right to come out of the shadows and to...