We've all seen the trend in recent years where individuals, couples, or friends build a tiny house, live in a van, or travel by sailboat and then vlog about their experiences on YouTube. I personally love it and I've followed quite a few channels where the creators explore the world and share what they see and how they live. This platform allows us nine-to-fivers to peer into a life that for so long seemed incomprehensible and it gives us a vague idea as how to replicate th

The roads are finally all passable a few weeks after Hurricane Florence hit the North Carolina shore. I knew our boat had survived because I had gotten pictures from Russ the owner of the slip. However, I needed to look in the boat and make sure that it had not taken on too much water and that the bilge pumps continued to perform. As I headed out I realized that there were many who experienced quite a bit of loss. Don, a friend of ours, has a home right in Oriental that wa

We knew it was going to happen at some point and now we are in the middle of riding out our first hurricane. Our boat is sitting in a private slip in Oriental, NC. While this town only has a population of 900 people it is the center of the sailing universe in NC. Nestled in the mouth of the Neuse river where it opens into the Pamlico sound, Oriental offers good protection and easy access to major waterways. We discovered Oriental on our way back to NC after we purchased our

Sometimes I bite off a little more than I can chew. Fixing up the sailboat is not the only thing left. Although, we wanted to cast off the lines and roam the seas till we are too weak and feeble, we needed a little bit more financial security to make things flow better. So just before we got married we decided to buy a house. This is not only to build equity but to hopefully rent out the house and to have a passive income stream to continue our adventures. While tempting

Back in 2014, I was in my little office looking at YouTube and I came across SVDelos. I am sure that most people in the sailing community have watched at least one of their videos. I was completely mesmerized by their lives. At that time there wasn't a ton of videos that they had uploaded so it was easy to start from the beginning of Bryan and Brady's adventures and binge with a healthy jealousy. Soon, I had run out of video content and I needed more to feed my appetite.

“We bought a sailboat.” “This is crazy. You know this is crazy right?” “Do you think we can call her and tell her we changed our minds?” “WE BOUGHT A SAILBOAT.” “What was I thinking.” “Babe, we own a sailboat.” “This is crazy.” And that was just Kadin. We took a walk around the boat one more time, Kadin inspected some questionable spots with the Marina Owner and asked his opinion on repairs, while me, my mom and the boat owner, Heather, muddled around and made small talk. I t