The day has come for me to be unemployed! It’s been quite a strange feeling leading up to the last day of work. The thought of this day has completely dominated my brain (whether at work or otherwise)…
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Six weeks to sell everything we own and move to the other side of the world!
Is now a good time to start a business? I guess someone’s got to pay for this lifestyle…
For the third year running we attended the Singapore Yacht Show at ONE°15 Marina, Sentosa Cove. This is the first place we originally stepped foot on a Fountaine Pajot and met Andrew from Multihull Solutions, which ultimately sold us on our chosen catamaran…
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Selling everything we own is a full-time job.
“This time next year, we'll be millionaires…” (Or at the very least living on a boat!)
"We'll hate what we've lost, but we'll love what we find."
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What does it take to become a live-aboard cruiser?
“You need patience, tenacity, and no fear of hard work.
And cash. The amount will depend on the above.
The rest can be learnt.”
After keeping the biggest secret of our lives for the past four years, we have finally been able to tell all of our friends and family about The Long Summer…
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We’ve sent out enquiries to marinas and schools for our first winter season. At the top of the list are Gibraltar, The Balearic Islands, Morocco, and The Canary Islands...
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Well, this week was very bittersweet. Having spent the past five years with my current company, the time has come to say goodbye (or hopefully, see you soon!). It has been such a fun and action-packed adventure being employed in Singapore…
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Our shipping registration documents have been lodged with the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, and the boat decals have been printed. Exciting!
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After an exhilarating first week is was time to tackle the second half of our course, without knowing what adventures it may bring! So, being relatively new to the world of boat management and maintenance we got stuck into some tasks around the marina. First job: send Em up the mast…!
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After 18 months of liaising and planning, our 2-week overseas training course was finally upon us! We left Singapore and flew to Krabi International Airport. Having travelled only with kids for the past 3.5 years, there was a sense that we had forgotten something… But we soon settled into a book each on the short flight over to Thailand...
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“So you landlubbers want to be sailors, eh?”
It would have been cool if someone asked us that, but they didn’t. Nevertheless, attaining our skipper licenses was a very important milestone for us to undertake and lean into…
Next week the grandparents are arriving from the UK to look after the kids for two weeks, while we travel to Thailand and learn how to sail. You can’t ask for better support than that!
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Oh darling, let’s be adventurers.
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"Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.’"
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We have finally arrived at the end of the beginning! As we look forward to this year, we know it’s going to produce one of the biggest changes to our family unit yet. Not only are we moving to the other side of the world and starting a new business venture, we are flipping our lifestyle completely and moving on to a yacht! Oh, and bringing two toddlers along for the ride…
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It is a big deal for us to say farewell (for now) to Australia. Since moving to Singapore we have been lucky enough to visit Australia often, especially having friends and family in both Sydney and Perth. Australia certainly is a special place for us…
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"Two drifters off to see the world, There's such a crazy world to see."
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Back in Sydney for the last time before we jet off to Europe and start the next chapter. We won’t be in the Northern Beaches again for some while to come, and it’s sad to say farewell to this little slice of paradise.
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