Living on a Sailboat: An Inspiring Insider’s Journey
27th May 2024
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Imagine waking up to the gentle rocking of the ocean, surrounded by the serene blue expanse, with the horizon stretching endlessly around you. Well, that
We built a 44ft steel yacht, left the UK and spent 15 years cruising the Mediterranean.
Then we came back to land. But dry land never felt quite right.
Today we live aboard a narrowboat Rasmunda, still choosing life differently, and sharing the true story through our videos, blog posts and the Getting Away book series, narrated by Mitzie, our ship’s dog.
We built a 44ft steel yacht, left the UK and spent 15 years cruising the Mediterranean. Then we came back to land. But dry land never felt quite right.
Today we live aboard a narrowboat, still choosing life differently, and sharing the true story through our videos, blog posts and the Getting Away book series, narrated by our dog Mitzie.
In our thirties, we asked ourselves a dangerous question: what would we do if we stopped waiting for the “right time” to live differently?
Our answer was to build a 44ft steel yacht while working full-time, then sail away from the UK with our dogs, Mitzie and Monty.
That decision led to 15 years living aboard and cruising the Mediterranean.
Years later, after selling the yacht and trying life back on land, we found ourselves drawn back to the water. Today we live aboard our narrowboat Rasmunda.
This website is the home of that continuing story: the books, the boats, the lessons, the mistakes, and the quiet refusal to live entirely by other people’s expectations.
Imagine waking up to the gentle rocking of the ocean, surrounded by the serene blue expanse, with the horizon stretching endlessly around you. Well, that
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Follow Mitzie’s Logbook, the real story behind the Getting Away series, and our current life afloat aboard Rasmunda.
Read the true story behind this website.
Getting Away
A Dog Narrates Our Wild Escape to the Mediterranean
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